Am 16.05.2014 21:53, schrieb Joakim:
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?
No, when compared against what Symbian OS could do with less resources.
