All of my iOS programs are ports of stuff I've already written for the Android or Windows PPC/CE (I haven't developed anything for Windows Phone, and probably won't.) Why? Because Apple hates developers, and rips off developers. Because I work for myself, and Apple forces anyone who wants to develop for their platform to buy into the company store and work as their cubicle slave.
So it's probably no surprise that the Apple developer "community" is the nastiest little bunch of dweebs you've ever seen; they're grouchy and paranoid, and developing under Apple's iron fist, they should be.
I had my first Android app to scan RFID tags for retail warehousing done in a morning. In the same amount of time, I was reading the legal agreements, getting "provisioning" and paying $100 for the "privlege" of sending an App to MY OWN PHONE. For 'Droid, I can develop on a Mac, Linux, or Windows Box. For Apple: shell out $2000 for a Mac, because even though it's an illegal restraint of trade to force you to buy a specific computer for development on another platform, no one has had pockets deep enough to challenge iEvil.
So, if/when a particular app pays off in the 'droid market, then, and only then have I considered an iOS port. Apple gets sloppy seconds as far as I'm concerned.
Great feedback here. I wish I had known this several months ago. I wanted to make a couple of apps to use on my phone. Forrgetboutttit! With the versioning and incompatibility issues, the technical notes were out of date in a few days.
Now I am marking the days on my iPhone contract with almost as dark a pen as I am using for the days left with 0bummer.
No, the iPhone is not THAT bad.
Check out this link for the Samsung Galaxy Note II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOX3HYDwTCY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Rather than get an iMAC get a piece of art. You ain’t gonna touch it, and it looks pretty. But the art will appreciate, the IMAC won’t.
Great comments. Maybe I should be glad that I only wasted a few months before making the switcheroo.
In the meantime I can hold myself over with a Google Nexxus 7 tablet.