I have been doing Objective-C development since 1991 and started with Java around late 95/early 96. I am still using both language almost on daily basis and honestly the GC is not something I really miss on iOS. In fact I like the fact on how I can fine control the memory deallocation as I want rather than decided by the OS.
Of course with close to 20 years of Obj-C dev it seems natural.
I would love rather an improved AppStore and even better access to some underlying part of iOS. I can't speak much for Android since I just started with it, but any developer learning iOS SDK should rather spend the appropriate amount of time to understand the simple concept of retain/release and how to use each framework to write stable application rather than apps that crash way to often.
What is really a bummer is that the iOS SDK provide some good tools to discover memory leaks when debugging the app (with Instruments) and even the great analysis tools now fully integrated with XCode 4. Unfortunately a good chunk of developers releasing apps in the AppStore do not necessary invest the time to learn the tools they are using.
I would love rather an improved AppStore and even better access to some underlying part of iOS. I can't speak much for Android since I just started with it, but any developer learning iOS SDK should rather spend the appropriate amount of time to understand the simple concept of retain/release and how to use each framework to write stable application rather than apps that crash way to often.
What is really a bummer is that the iOS SDK provide some good tools to discover memory leaks when debugging the app (with Instruments) and even the great analysis tools now fully integrated with XCode 4. Unfortunately a good chunk of developers releasing apps in the AppStore do not necessary invest the time to learn the tools they are using.