This is a great example of why I'm wary to get into iOS development. Companies like Apple and Microsoft have the resources and talent to make great platforms, and the control they have allows for really polished tools. The allure of the integrated ecosystem is strong, but then if they fall short in some critical way, or become irrelevant over time you have to either start begging the vendor for change or else chuck your whole time investment.

In the open source world things are often buggy and rough around the edges, but the cross-polination of ideas happens faster, coupling is looser, and the cost of switching is lower.

I'll still probably pony up for the damn ipad sdk, but hopefully I'll know better than to pin my career on it.