[sturadnidge]

That's all well and good, but there's no irony there. As statictype I believe was suggesting.

It only would have been ironic had jwz elected to develop for iOS because he thought the Android app store policy sucked, to find that the Apple app store policy sucked more. Which is not the case here.

[Edited to include clarification]

[gcp]

There's some level of irony in 2 areas:

1) He disses Android harshly, yet ends up complaining about Apple not that much later. 2) He disses Android for "sucking", yet the area he complains about is one where iOS sucks compared to Android.

I think this qualifies as irony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.

[sturadnidge]

Nope - as batista points out, it only would have been ironic had jwz elected to develop for iOS because he thought the Android app store policy sucked, to find that the Apple app store policy sucked more. Which is not the case here.

[batista]

>There's some level of irony in 2 areas: 1) He disses Android harshly, yet ends up complaining about Apple not that much later. 2) He disses Android for "sucking", yet the area he complains about is one where iOS sucks compared to Android.

That a platform sucks doesn't mean that it cannot have some strong points compared to some other platform.

Is it "ironic" if I say: "The North Pole sucks as a place to live", and then move to Miami and get a sun burn? Does that fact suddenly make the North Pole any more habitable?