I think you're overgeneralizing here. Most of Apple's APIs are wonderfully general (e.g., look at their full 3d-aware Core Animation capabilities that are bett

I think you're overgeneralizing here. Most of Apple's APIs are wonderfully general (e.g., look at their full 3d-aware Core Animation capabilities that are better than any desktop system (other than Mac OS X, which shares the same capabilities). They specialize APIs when it would be harmful to generalize. They're fighting at every turn for battery life (I'm at WWDC this week, and have seen that mantra (optimize for battery life) at nearly every talk), which is tough on developers but great for end users.