Development

• Language: Objective-C, C, C++
• Does Well
  • Beautiful UI toolkit compared to other platforms
  • Powerful device, 3d, great web browser, etc
  • Can build compelling applications using only webdev techniques
  • Encourages reasonable design choices
• Lacking
  • Documentation is vague/incomplete/wrong in some cases and generally annoying to navigate
  • API can be frustratingly bad to use for some things and is somewhat restrictive
  • Manual memory management and steep learning curve for obj-c & dev tools

Resources

• developer.apple.com
• irc.freenode.net #macdev
• irc.freenode.net #iphonedev
• The Really Big List of Links

Lab Support

• We are currently doing some basic iPhone development

Other

• The NDA goes a long way to prevent good community support from developing on the web