Now a days you do not necessarily need a mac to learn objective c for iphone development. All you gotta do is run a virtual box, my experience using the mac is just not my cup of tea. I would not mind learning Objective-C, but I only use Windows 7, Kali Linux, and Windows 8. Mac on the other hand was just temporary to check it out. Android is a beautiful robot too.
Your attitude is the reason people generalize 13 year old's behavior to childish. I'm not saying that you shouldn't like Apple, everyone as the right to it's own opinion but you should definitely present your arguments. And calling names!? How old are you? 6? This a forum where debate is encouraged but to a debate to be functional you cant have a 13 yo calling names to everybody as if he was the only one that was aloud to have an opinion.
>almost 2014
>still saying Apple just makes better stuff.
>mfw
Apple makes great products that they sell at prices people are willing to pay for. Their target market is the art sector and the computer illiterate. Suggesting their stuff is just better is nothing short of fanboy wankery. (that said I'm totally a valve fanboy.)
Also, intel wants to optimize android for x86. We'll see PCs running android within a couple of years, and if intel gets behind it, I think Google has won against windows.
I'm not a phone person, never have been. I don't have an Apple product and I don't have an Android phone. Can't say I don't have an Android product because Kindle Fire runs Android.
There is no product or company that is the de facto ultimate. Apple products have their strengths and shortcomings as do *nix distros, Android, Microsoft, and Sony (and all other companies for other products).
Proclaiming one to be the best over all others hands down does a few things. Shows you are a fanboy, ill informed about other products, or just plain don't care which makes you come across as biased and just solidifies the fanboy image.
Now lets do this properly.
The plus sides of Windows is that it is fairly simple to learn and navigate with just a little playing and experimenting if you don't want to read the help or anything. Down side of Microsoft is that almost everyone seems to be in bed with them (notice all the Xbox only releases with 'possible releases on other systems'...Skyrim DLC was out on 360 first, then Windows, then PS3 months later). Linux has a learning curve, but has a lot of potential because unlike Android and Apple you can develop and publish for them freely for everyone to use. Android requires a one time fee to develop and publish. Apple requires a Mac to develop for their products.
Linux is far from basic and Apple is far from being the best. The best does not exist and I doubt it ever will because all products are created according to the companies one sided agenda.
I don't really get into the company vs. company debates. I think it would be more interesting to argue whether or not the proliferation of such smart devices is a net benefit to society. Do the good effects outweigh the bad?
I tend to find that in the information age we're sold that every advance is a move towards a more learned, communicative, and integrated world. In reality we use all our technology for gossip and orgasms.
Yet, here I am. Making money programming computers. :)
If I say that "for me, iOS is the best." I mean most advantageous, most suitable, most fitting, most appropriate, most apt; most prudent, most sensible, most advisable, or most desirable. So it is personal to my situation and there is a best for all peoples situations, it may well be a different best but still the best...for them.
@Grey Wolf
True, to an extent, because people still download apps and things for their phones, devices, and computers because while they say it is the best for them they in reality are still unhappy and continually looking for things that do what they need. My son's nurse is constantly looking for apps that are more accurate with weather on her iPhone, better map apps, and much more, but she swears it is the best for her. So, again, I say, there is the best does not exist because everyone is always wanting it to be 'better' in some regard.
I factor in company ethics when qualifying a product with 'best or worst.' Apple flunks that one for me. As does samsung. And most I've looked into come pretty damn close to failing grade.