[simonh]

> You have to do all sorts of acrobatics with testing devices...

A problem completely unheard of in Android land.

Ok, so maybe you can find a few situations in which Android might be a better solution that iOS. Congratulations. Android for the win. But there are many, many craptons of successful iOS apps out there that might like to be able to use services running on e.g. Linux. The existence of useful roles for Android devices won't make those go away.

[pier25]

As long as you are ok with going through the App Store and only using iOS then yeah, good for you.

This is what I meant earlier with:

> I really don't see Swift becoming a popular full stack solution outside of environments invested in iOS and macOS.

But in many enterprise, industrial, education, and scientific applications, iOS is a complete fail. Not because of iOS in itself, but because of the many restrictions Apple imposes on the development workflow and the limited hardware.

Or if you need cough mobile crossplatform cough...