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This guy it seems trying to say that Android's APIs were developed by (talented) engineers for engineers (skilled programmers) on the go, while Apple just adopted mature libraries from OSX which are providing set of hight-level abstractions and APIs understandable by any mediocre coder (the way of 'easy/cool' java/php frameworks).

But one should remember that too high-level APIs and abstractions has its cost in terms of performance and bloatedness of required runtime (J2EE/Spring/Hibernate way) especially on resource-limited (lack of FPU, etc) platforms.

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