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> This is exactly the reason why I avoid any "Java/Android/iPhone" job out there. I code software in Python on Ubuntu machines.

This is great, but if everybody was doing like you we wouldn't have mobile apps, or in fact anything that has to run on something non standard.

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I believe we would. Mobile platforms would evolve or die. What we ended up with is the simplest(for the platform) thing that developers would use. Sure, it is a horrible experience but as long as there isn't too much developer revolt then why bother improving it? That would add cost that doesn't contribute value to the bottom line. No one buys a phone because the dev tools are nice.

Well, Android runs on Linux. Python runs on Linux. Git runs on Linux. Vim runs on Linux. See where I'm going here?

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