From a development perspective: Apple has been very pleasant to develop for. I like swift a lot, I like the metal API, I like objective C, they have solid optio

From a development perspective: Apple has been very pleasant to develop for. I like swift a lot, I like the metal API, I like objective C, they have solid options for UI libraries and frameworks, lots of up to date documentation, Xcode doesn’t drive me too crazy, etc. Android development, in my experience, has been a complete shitshow. I remember getting started by following tutorials on the official docs that would fail to build with cryptic gradle errors. Like, the very first intro project. There are numerous languages and frameworks that are options to use, and it’s not clear which are the best or most future proofed. If you’re getting started, what are you supposed to use? The base sdk, which can’t even work properly on the happy path? Jetbrains compose? React Native? I personally opted for flutter, which at the time was positioned to be the flagship framework for developing UIs on their upcoming OS, Fuchsia. RIP. And last but not least, I would like to extend a single digit to Google for the hoops they make you jump through to ship a mobile app. I had the pleasure of having one of my apps rejected with only a vague explanation that I couldn’t make sense of. I politely asked them to explain more about the issue and how I could bring the app into compliance, and I just got the original vague response copied and pasted with a random meaningless sentence highlighted. I tried one more time, same deal, and I gave up. I since gave up on android development and switched to iPhone for my personal device.