'Plug in an Android device, and you might need to search around to find a manufacturer-specific toolset, and/or navigate secret menus to enable debugging (like "click this menu item that doesn't look like a button seven times"'
Sorry I need to call BS on that. Developing on your android device is approximately a thousand times easier than the entire Apple developer/certificate/code-signing dance. Running the app under debugger is also a single button click experience. To top it all, all of this is free and runs on multiple desktop platforms (Linux, windows or OSX). The relative shortage of Android developers in SF and NYC is much better explained by the original article than any sort of difference in ease of starting out in either platform.
Sorry I need to call BS on that. Developing on your android device is approximately a thousand times easier than the entire Apple developer/certificate/code-signing dance. Running the app under debugger is also a single button click experience. To top it all, all of this is free and runs on multiple desktop platforms (Linux, windows or OSX). The relative shortage of Android developers in SF and NYC is much better explained by the original article than any sort of difference in ease of starting out in either platform.