Re: Fix the Android IDE !
Google is not in the market to sell development tools. It will get whatever is available for free, customize it a little to achieve what it needs, and you'll have very little choice. There's no competition, so why spend money?
Unluckily, most of the big companies in the business of commercial development tools (compilers, IDE, debuggers, profilers) went bankrupt, or are a dim shadow of their former self (just look at what happened to Borland) - open source made that business mostly unprofitable, most developers would use so-so tools as long as they don't have to pay for them, than spending money in far better tools.
Sure, there are some small one with some specific tools (mostly Java based), but you no longer see the big competition of the 1990s or early 2000s.
Only Visual Studio could survive being backed by the whole Microsoft.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
