Facebook iPhone Dev: The more I work with Android the more it reminds me of Windows.
"Android Tools Are Horrendous, OS Is Hideous," Says Facebook iPhone App Developer.
"[Droid X is] not THAT good. Stick with your iPhone."
"The more I work with Android the more it reminds me of Windows...as in, it's really flexible, agnostic, and developer-friendly, but also really sloppily designed."
"Android dev community needs a quirksmode.org-like site to chart the subtle differences between each device, so we needn't buy every one." (In English -- Google still hasn't provided a solution for the Android fragmentation problem.)
"After all those years of hype, AMOLED screens suck. What's with the gradient banding?!"
"Once a day or so it hits me that I am writing Java, and I cry a little." (Java is the Android programming language.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Androi....html?x=0&.v=1
"[Droid X is] not THAT good. Stick with your iPhone."
"The more I work with Android the more it reminds me of Windows...as in, it's really flexible, agnostic, and developer-friendly, but also really sloppily designed."
"Android dev community needs a quirksmode.org-like site to chart the subtle differences between each device, so we needn't buy every one." (In English -- Google still hasn't provided a solution for the Android fragmentation problem.)
"After all those years of hype, AMOLED screens suck. What's with the gradient banding?!"
"Once a day or so it hits me that I am writing Java, and I cry a little." (Java is the Android programming language.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Androi....html?x=0&.v=1
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"Android Tools Are Horrendous, OS Is Hideous," Says Facebook iPhone App Developer.
"[Droid X is] not THAT good. Stick with your iPhone."
"The more I work with Android the more it reminds me of Windows...as in, it's really flexible, agnostic, and developer-friendly, but also really sloppily designed."
"Android dev community needs a quirksmode.org-like site to chart the subtle differences between each device, so we needn't buy every one." (In English -- Google still hasn't provided a solution for the Android fragmentation problem.)
"After all those years of hype, AMOLED screens suck. What's with the gradient banding?!"
"Once a day or so it hits me that I am writing Java, and I cry a little." (Java is the Android programming language.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Androi....html?x=0&.v=1
I'll bite.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...oid-2010-8.DTL
http://www.businessinsider.com/faceb...new-sdk-2010-4
So much for programming language innovation on the iPhone platform.
Apple has always banned "virtual machine" languages, presumably for performance reasons, which was understandable. However, there are an increasing number of cross-compilers that allow translating from one language to Objective-C, which allows performance to still be very good while allowing developers to use a language they prefer to Objective-C. Apple is now banning those as well, which means developers who don't enjoy working in Objective-C have no choice if they want to write a native iPhone app.
I'm upset because frankly I think Objective-C is mediocre and was excited about using other languages to make iPhone development fun again.
Looks like he not happy with either side.