On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 14:15:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
Mind you, how many of the big "be all end all"-technologies
that have been hyped over the years are really good (including
community base projects)? JS, Java, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, iOS,
Android ...? With good I mean really good, not omnipresent.
Agree with you on all of those, except for iOS. I know many of
us hate how much its success is driven by marketing, but it
appears to be a very solid product technically. At least that's
what I read, I haven't bought an Apple product in a decade
because of their crazy stance on patents and how closed they've
become.
However, just looking at iOS technically, even the latest iPad
Air and iPhone 5s run on just 1 GB of RAM and still regularly
outperform Android devices, which is crazy considering Android
superphones/tablets have up to 3 GBs of RAM these days. iOS
devices repeatedly benchmark as the least laggy for touch. Nick
may not believe in people voting with their wallets, but iOS
devices have garnered Apple a couple hundred billion in profits
so far:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-and-Apple-reportedly-earned-87.9-of-the-smartphone-market-profits-for-the-last-6-years_id54030
I suppose you can hate on Obj-C, but that's not really iOS. The
latest release got bogged down in all the bling, but that's more
like Apple heaped too much icing on top: the cake is still great.
Why isn't iOS good?
