If you’re an Android developer, or one of the many providers of services tied to the success of the Android operating system, what exactly are you thinking about Google’s acquisition of Motorola?

The deal has been met from all angles with a storm of opinions, observations, praises and criticisms. Even the S&P got in on the deal today when it downgraded Google’s stock from Buy to Sell and lowered its target price for the Internet giant from $700 to $500 per share.

Ajay Mohan, CEO of Ishi Systems, the parent company of location-based iOS app Picksie, which provides users with intelligent, real-time recommendations for food and entertainment, says this is what his company has been waiting for.

“We have been developing Picksie for Android for awhile, but we haven’t released it yet, because we’ve found that the Android space is really fragmented,” Mohan said, adding that his company just simply couldn’t afford the resources to bring out multiple iterations of Picksie for all the Android devices on the market.

Mohan says he’s encouraged by the Motorola deal, calling it a “turning point for Android.” Mohan hopes that this will give Google the tools it needs to bring at least a modicum of standardization to Android, in turn motivating other players to adopt the more uniform standards.

Mohan acknowledges that working in cooperation with Motorola to develop a tighter Android experience will be a delicate balancing act if Google hopes to keep its other partner OEMs content, but he says the Android platform is at a point where it has to do something to ease the pain for developers.

Jason Katz, CEO of PalTalk, a provider of real-time video-based chat for mobile and desktop, echoed Mohan’s sentiments. Katz says it’s time that Google moves Android towards the kind of cohesive, seamless experience that Apple has created with iOS, but he’s less worried about how partner OEMs will feel about it.

“I surely hope they can build a better experience, because that would be great for all of us who are building the software, because it’s nightmarish, [to build for Android] because there’s no way to standardize on anything,” Katz says. “I think it will take a long time, but I think that they’ve done such a good job with the Android system in general that whether other partners are angered or not isn’t going to be as relevant, because where are they going to go? Microsoft is just not a viable option today, and BlackBerry went from dominant to irrelevant in the blink of an eye.”

Katz says for Google it was a good move no matter what they do with Motorola, citing the company’s vast cash reserves. “I wouldn’t expect them to be the same sort of provider Apple is, but I think it could be very helpful in the long run to have more standardization, and I hope that’s what they’re doing, but I don’t really know. I can only tell you how difficult it’s been to actually program in the Android environment.”

Katz said he’s hopeful that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 sees traction—he’d love to port PalTalk over to its native Windows environment—but he says he’s not optimistic, saying both Microsoft and Nokia have proved too reactive in a market that won’t wait for anyone.

While both of the developers here pointed to Apple as the easier of the two platforms to write software for, they also both acknowledged that Google’s move appears to further solidify the platform wars into two camps—iOS and Android. Whether the deal means a more standardized Android, only time will tell, but you can bet there are developers all over the world crossing their fingers that it does.