Should mention I tried to love Apple. I bought a $1700 IMac 27” with the latest “Mountain Lion”. Downloaded XCode for iphone Dev and started tinkering.
After spending 30 or 40 hours I’ve come to the conclusion that I had originally. Apple is a bunch of elitist snobs and don’t give a darn about developers or anyone else.
Kinda of like Cisco.
Both companies have good hardware but they both have way to draconian EUA’s and licensing.
Not saying that all Apple or Cisco users are that way of course!
Both companies make beautiful hardware.
But their software either does what you want it to or too bad!!!
All of my iOS programs are ports of stuff I've already written for the Android or Windows PPC/CE (I haven't developed anything for Windows Phone, and probably won't.) Why? Because Apple hates developers, and rips off developers. Because I work for myself, and Apple forces anyone who wants to develop for their platform to buy into the company store and work as their cubicle slave.
So it's probably no surprise that the Apple developer "community" is the nastiest little bunch of dweebs you've ever seen; they're grouchy and paranoid, and developing under Apple's iron fist, they should be.
I had my first Android app to scan RFID tags for retail warehousing done in a morning. In the same amount of time, I was reading the legal agreements, getting "provisioning" and paying $100 for the "privlege" of sending an App to MY OWN PHONE. For 'Droid, I can develop on a Mac, Linux, or Windows Box. For Apple: shell out $2000 for a Mac, because even though it's an illegal restraint of trade to force you to buy a specific computer for development on another platform, no one has had pockets deep enough to challenge iEvil.
So, if/when a particular app pays off in the 'droid market, then, and only then have I considered an iOS port. Apple gets sloppy seconds as far as I'm concerned.