"Objective-C is kludge"... really?
"Objective-C is kludge which is only relevant to Apple platforms, thus irrelevant to most application developers. Apple is part of an expensive lifestyle fad and has a limited lifespan, so beware about investing much of your life with them."
Them's mighty strong fightin words.
Just a look by the numbers, ios is more popular than every current game console by the numbers. But being nice I added all of the original numbers to make it a 'fair' fight.
We have the nintendo brand at 602.42 million since 1974; the sony playstation brand at 369.8 million since 1994; the xbox brand at 79 million consoles sold since 2001; then we have apple's ios brand at 193.62 million since 2007!
Or nintendo at 16 million per year; sony at 21 million per year; microsoft at 7.9 million per year; apple at 48 million per year.
So by your logic microsoft shouldn't even be trying with the kinect! They should just shut down their games division because no one likes… um wait exactly how do you judge relevant?
-----(how I came by my numbers)-----
xbox at 24 million
http://web.archive.org/web/20080621155352/http://www.xbox.com/zh-SG/community/news/2006/20060510.htm
xbox 360 at 55 million
http://majornelson.com/2011/06/03/a-few-stats-before-we-head-into-e3/
ps3 at 50 million
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110415_e.html
ps2 at 150 million (includes sell in)
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110214_e.html
playstation and ps one at 102 million
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps_e.html
psp at 67.8 million
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110228_e.html
wii at 86.01 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii#cite_note-earnings_release_Q4_2010-42
3ds at 3.61 million
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425e.pdf
ds at 146.42 million
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425e.pdf#page=16
game cube at 21.7 million
http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B
N64 at 32.9 million
http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B
super nintendo at 49.1 million
http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B
nes at 61.91 million
http://www.webcitation.org/5nXieXX2B
entire gameboy line at 200 million
http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20090423-137056.html
virtual boy at 0.77 million
http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/domestic/games/features/111823.shtml
all iphone versions 108.62 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg
all ipod touch 60 million
http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/
all ipad 25 million
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/06/06/businessinsider-new-expectation-for-ipad-sales-8-million-this-quarter-2011-6.DTL