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[QUOTE=&quot;n2rj, post: 100806, member: 5768&quot;]No, actually I have an intimate knowledge of iOS, OSX, Linux, UNIX and other systems. This is not &quot;kool aid drinking.&quot; I have written software for consumer and professional operating systems, mobile devices, and other things, programmed in a lot of high and low level languages.The Apple way wins for the end user, except in a very few cases where it's Apple's way or the highway. But for the most part, Apple products win over everything else in terms of usability. They have a set of guidelines for iOS that they enforce when approving apps for the app store. It is this manual review process that keeps a lot of junk out of the app store. Trust me, I used to be rabidly anti-Apple until I started working with Apple products. There are so many little things that they get right. As for legacy hardware, you are not going to be able to provide new features AND make older hardware work well. There comes a point of diminishing returns.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="n2rj, post: 100806, member: 5768"]No, actually I have an intimate knowledge of iOS, OSX, Linux, UNIX and other systems. This is not "kool aid drinking." I have written software for consumer and professional operating systems, mobile devices, and other things, programmed in a lot of high and low level languages. The Apple way wins for the end user, except in a very few cases where it's Apple's way or the highway. But for the most part, Apple products win over everything else in terms of usability. They have a set of guidelines for iOS that they enforce when approving apps for the app store. It is this manual review process that keeps a lot of junk out of the app store. Trust me, I used to be rabidly anti-Apple until I started working with Apple products. There are so many little things that they get right. As for legacy hardware, you are not going to be able to provide new features AND make older hardware work well. There comes a point of diminishing returns.[/QUOTE]

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