[nl]

A lot of people see that as the worst form of hypocrisy.

Marco writes articles post with a headline "Why I hate Android"[1]. Then when it turns out that (despite his attitude) people are making money on Android he decided to jump on board.

[1] http://www.marco.org/2012/01/10/why-i-hate-android

[taligent]

Well those people are simply naive.

Many developers have hated the platforms they have developed on but do so because the platform allows them to make money.

It's worked this way since the beginning of industry i.e. decades.

[fpgeek]

> Many developers have hated the platforms they have developed on but do so because the platform allows them to make money.

The hate isn't the hypocrisy. Plenty of people, for example, hate Windows and develop for it without being hypocrites.

The hypocrisy is extensively claiming that the platform in question isn't profitable ("terrible development economics", "unlikely to recover those costs" [referring to development costs"), etc.), playing up issues like fragmentation and generally arguing in almost every way possible to other developers that you shouldn't be on this platform... and then turning around and jumping on board anyway.

In fact, given the timeframe Marco talked about (last winter), it is entirely possible he was publicly arguing against Android development while Instapaper for Android was being developed. I can understand why he'd do that from a business perspective: Marco wouldn't want to tip off competitors to his change in thinking (note that Readability launched on Android and ReadItLater had gone radio-silent before relaunching as Pocket during the period in question), but that doesn't make him less of a hypocrite.