[alex_c]

I found that matches my experience fairly well.

I haven't found Apple's documentation to be significantly worse than Android. Parts of the documentation are sparse at best (the Cocoa layer is great, lower-level stuff less so), but overall both systems have good documentation.

Fully agree about Apple's certificates - it feels like I have to spend an hour or two every few weeks trying to figure out some provisioning profile problem. By now I think I've gone through almost every possible thing that could go wrong with them, so it's a lot faster to fix, but it was incredibly frustrating at first. Apple automated some of that through XCode a few releases back, but that stopped working after a few months and I haven't been able to get it to work again - back to doing everything by hand.

Also fully agree about the Android emulator.

All in all, the two platforms are very close in terms of difficulty - they each have different downsides. I'm a lot more familiar with the iPhone, so Android development goes a bit slower, but I suspect with similar amounts of experience there shouldn't be a significant difference in development time.