A bad idea in so many ways...

Steve Jobs was a great innovator that gave the space to people like Jony Ives and Tim Cook to make Apple the most innovative and successful company in the world. You think he is/was a loser. No more really needs to be said about your opinion that you have every right to except that it is hateful.

Well, I am an iOS developer, started developing on the Mac in 1986, former Apple employee, and my tech I own is all Apple made. So, it would be hard to dissuade me from thinking Steve Jobs was one of the most influential persons that brought technologies to the masses. Have a good day.

Yes, his genius was unleashed when Steve Jobs came back.

"Jobs died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. Shortly after, Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive delivered a eulogy for Jobs describing him as "my closest and my most loyal friend." In a piece in The Wall Street Journal Magazine on Monday, Ive noted that he hasn't spoken much publicly about his relationship with Jobs since then.

"My memories of that brutal, heartbreaking day 10 years ago are scattered and random. I cannot remember driving down to his house," Ive wrote. "I do remember a hazy October sky and shoes that were too tight. I remember afterwards Tim and I sat quietly in the garden together for a long time."

Although he has "barely thought about Steve's death" in the time since, Ive said he thinks about Jobs every day. "We worked together for nearly 15 years. We had lunch together most days and spent our afternoons in the sanctuary of the design studio. Those were some of the happiest, most creative and joyful times of my life," Ive wrote. "I loved how he saw the world. The way he thought was profoundly beautiful."

And your point is?

Wozniak does nothing without Jobs. Jobs built a team twice at Apple. You try that...

Stop using drugs.

Jobs put together a great team. That is what a great CEO does.

Because you do not understand that without Steve Jobs there would be no Apple, no Lisa, no Mac, no NextStep, no Pixar. They threw him out the door and Apple went down the tubes. Steve Jobs came back and had the vision to get the company back on track and now it's the most valuable company on the planet. Woz and Jeff Raskin were not leaders. Steve Jobs was and if you deny that you are out of touch with reality. Apple, NextStep (the future of Apple's macOS), Pixar. Be a leader behind those businesses and then criticize and the only one I can think of his equal is Elon Musk.

Stop projecting your own view of your life on Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs changed the world. What did you do?

Why would any app developer spend his time developing a for profit app for this world?

Your comment is misleading. It is fairly simple to create an app and sell it users without the AppStore on macOS. Use Sparkle to update it. The big controversy is not Windows vs Mac, it is iOS apps. Apple creates a sophisticated and secure mechanism to sell apps and offer in app purchases. I am old enough to remember when distributing a retail application of any kind (pre internet) resulted in an app developer getting a fraction of what was charged for an application.

Apple getting 30% (0r 15% for a small company) seems fair to me given their investment in technology to distribute applications securely and at what is a low price historically. They relieve you of so much of the hassle of selling something internationally. Small developers should love this. Large developers hate this and want all the profit for themselves. If app delivery, especially on mobile, becomes the wild, wild west you will see massive security threats and fraud.

I missed the part where a father can offer his children to military service. Are you in need of mental health services?

We can upgrade our existing and rapidly degrading nuclear deterrent. Or we can throw the towel in and be subservient to China, who just tested a space based weapons that has a nuclear hypersonic maneuverable warhead that can orbit the earth many times and strike us from any angle of orbit. They treat their people so well.

Pretty sure what side you are on. You must love the NBA and your Nike sneakers.

China will have invaded Taiwan by then and there will have been or not have been a full scale war by then. Either TSMC will not exist and be controlled by the CCP or we will have the first nuclear world war and global warming might be our least concern. Carl Sagan bet on nuclear winter.of course. In the 1970's they predicted A/C would not exist by the turn of the decade.

It seem pretty clear that billionaire tech "leaders" do not give a flying f**k about the plight of the American tech worker, especially the older ones. While they buy Hawaiian estates and sponsor the America's cup, they have absolutely abused H1-B visas to enrich themselves. I have seen it since at least 1996, using the lie that there is a lack of American talent for most tech jobs. They use this to depress our American wages and make us work horribly long hours like we were child labor in the early 1900's. They conspire to prevent a free job market by making secret deals with their competitors to not compete for talent. Maybe worst of all, they blackmail H1-B visa workers to get far less pay and to create a sort of slavery for these immigrants that makes it impossible for them to demand equal wages and decent treatment lest they are fired and they are forced to go back to their country of origin. Meanwhile they tear up and down I-280 in their supercars, fly in their private jets, and sail the oceans in their massive yachts. They claim concern for the environment or whatever social cause is popular on the Davos circuit. They live in bubbles like French kings from the 18th century. There was once exploding opportunities for the independent tech guy, but the tech King vampires have made us into blood donors to support their empires. H1-B visa should be used for only the most exceptional foreign talent to enrich the technical talent in this country. They should not be used for lowering wages for jobs where there is plenty of American technical talent, but the greedy Kings of tech just want more. And they should not use these visas to essentially enslave foreign workers.

It is very good that you are coming from a C and assembly background. Its always important to understand what any compilers or interpreted language do behind the scenes. My experience was Pascal => assembly => Basic => ObjectPascal => C => C++ => Java => Objective C => Python => Ruby => Perl; a lot of them overlapping.

The first thing I would suggest is to get up to speed on object-oriented programming concepts.

I would say that you should be familiar C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++ (can come in very hand when using c++ and Objective-C in the same project).

Swift seems to be the future for iOS and OS X and looks to be a very interesting language with some really great Xcode tools behind it. Think Playgrounds.

Its always good to know JVM based languages Java, Scala, etc... Obviously if you are going to do any Android you will have to know Java.

My prediction: Swift will be the most important language for iOS, OS X five years from now. It is usable today. Keep in mind that Swift is a language that is quickly evolving based on developer input, so there is going to be some overhead in keeping up with the changes.

Xcode is free, but it is worth the 99.00 dev program just to watch the last few years WWDC videos. Its pretty wild what you can do with Xcode these days.

Good luck with your iOS adventure. It can be a lot of fun!