[puls]

He's a pundit, but he's really close with all of the influential developers in the community. He's more in tune with the Apple community than perhaps any one other person, and his track record of being right is unmatched in the last several years.

[kitsune_]

Track record of being right is unmatched in the last several years? Do you care to provide proof for that? I'm not saying that you are wrong, but this is a pretty big claim to make.

[steele]

hmm, who are the influential developers in the iOS community?

[msbarnett]

Some names that spring to mind, off the top of my head and in no particular order: Loren Brichter, Marco Arment, Matt Gemmel, Matt Gallagher, and Steven Frank.

[jonhendry]

Wil Shipley

[freemarketteddy]

and also some notable young ones like Joe Hewitt,Jeff Verkoeyen,Peter Steinberger,Mugunth Kumar!

[SquareWheel]

Hewitt has doing some punditry himself lately. Interesting reads, he seems to believe that the open web doesn't have enough direction and will fall to apps unless somebody takes the reigns.

He developed much of Firebug and worked at Facebook in the mobile division (creating the Facebook iPhone app), for those who don't know him.