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The iPhone did change the industry and it is technically very solid. However, it is NOT pleasant to develop for. Having developed private apps for iOS, Android
by steverb 15y ago
The iPhone did change the industry and it is technically very solid. However, it is NOT pleasant to develop for.
Having developed private apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 I personally find Windows 7 to be the best platform for development, with Android a distant second. iOS is by far the most painful dev platform of the three.
Unless you really like programming like it's 1985 (a not insignificant number of people really do), in which case it's great.
- white_devil 15y agoUnless you really like programming like it's 1985 Care to elaborate?
- prodigal_erik 15y agoIt's 2011, and iOS developers are somehow persuaded to accept a crude imitation of Smalltalk and waste time on "do I need to box this int in a NSNumber?" and "did I get a SIGSEGV because I called [super dealloc] before [field release]?", when the first Smalltalk implementation handled this minutiae automatically on less powerful hardware nearly forty years ago.