| I was hesitant to reply because your response (especially the unrelated copying rant) looked fanboy-ish instead of technical, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and see where it goes. "Yeah, it's called building a stable API. Not all APIs are ready for external consumption." Yet Android's APIs that allow multitasking, JITs, and sharing with arbitrary apps (instead of just the apps that Apple has blessed) have been stable too and available much longer. The stable API argument doesn't hold water. "iOS's public APIs are way better" As a developer, I have to disagree. Even for simple things like sharing, multitasking, default handling, and multitasking Apple's APIs remain inferior. "[A long irrelevant rant about copying]" Technically, the LG Prada pioneered the UI and interaction model you're talking about, but that's not the point. My point was that Android didn't use a "whatever" model for multitasking but instead designed at the outset the same save/restore transparent multitasking system that Apple adopted years later that you hold in such high esteem. "Because there are more things to enjoying software development than 'hating closed systems' or not wanting to part with $100." $100 per year. I have never met anybody who would prefer to pay for their hobbies when there is a free option that is just as good or better for scratching their itch. |