100% agree with you. I helped develop an app that's like a POS system for a security-conscious community. The preference was to use android because of the low acquisition cost... but that was thrown out almost immediately because of the hoops necessary to meet the various security requirements.
With iOS/iPad, the team had a working MVP type product done in a few days (most of the heavy lifting was already done in a backend available via API). The MDM solution provided an on-demand VPN capability which took a lot of network activity out of the critical path. All infrastructure build cost very little and took about 2 weeks. We literally made a decision to go on the 1st of the month, and had it in front of the key business people on the 12th of the month.
Even if Apple fucked us, it's fine -- Android would have fucked us 3 times already.
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100% agree with you. I helped develop an app that's like a POS system for a security-conscious community. The preference was to use android because of the low acquisition cost... but that was thrown out almost immediately because of the hoops necessary to meet the various security requirements.
With iOS/iPad, the team had a working MVP type product done in a few days (most of the heavy lifting was already done in a backend available via API). The MDM solution provided an on-demand VPN capability which took a lot of network activity out of the critical path. All infrastructure build cost very little and took about 2 weeks. We literally made a decision to go on the 1st of the month, and had it in front of the key business people on the 12th of the month.
Even if Apple fucked us, it's fine -- Android would have fucked us 3 times already.