I don't even care for Apple in general. If I were ever to develop these for commercial purposes, however, I'd go Apple all the way and consider Android as a secondary market. This reflects the quality of the development environments and the customer base (in terms of revenue). The only reason I write anything for Android is out of necessity (these are the devices we own).
Funny, because then you'd meet the amateur hour that's Xcode automation and continious integration. As soon as you graduate from a toy app to something you need to maintain for awhile, you find out just in what horrible state the Apple development tools are when it comes to UI testing, building in general and constant breakagaes of code when new iOS is released.
We literaly spent a month of man-hours every year to fix up constant breaking Xcode CI setup and iOS API breakages while Android team continued development unimpeded. Not to mention constant breaking changes and crashes of Swift language and IDE toolchain.
I do agree that for a complete beginner the experience is significantly better in Apple world, but please do not comment on "commercial purposes" development if you haven't done either.
> and constant breakagaes of code when new iOS is released […] We literaly spent a month of man-hours every year to fix up […] iOS API breakages
Unless you're referring to the Swift 2 -> 3 migration process, then I have to seriously question what you're doing that causes so much breakage with iOS version updates. With Obj-C there's usually just a couple of deprecation warnings to handle. With Swift (outside of the 2 -> 3 migration process) there may be a few more updates, due to the Swift SDK wrappers, which may be hard errors instead of merely warnings, but it's still usually pretty easy to fix. And if you are talking about the Swift 2 -> 3 migration, good news, you don't have to do that again!
Which makes me wonder, when you say "iOS API breakages", do you really mean you're using SPI, method swizzling, or subview diving and have to deal with the fact that you're doing something against the rules?
