D to ASM.js vs D to Dart (VM)

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 14:15:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Mind you, how many of the big "be all end all"-technologies 
> that have been hyped over the years are really good (including 
> community base projects)? JS, Java, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, iOS, 
> Android ...? With good I mean really good, not omnipresent.

Agree with you on all of those, except for iOS.  I know many of 
us hate how much its success is driven by marketing, but it 
appears to be a very solid product technically.  At least that's 
what I read, I haven't bought an Apple product in a decade 
because of their crazy stance on patents and how closed they've 
become.

However, just looking at iOS technically, even the latest iPad 
Air and iPhone 5s run on just 1 GB of RAM and still regularly 
outperform Android devices, which is crazy considering Android 
superphones/tablets have up to 3 GBs of RAM these days.  iOS 
devices repeatedly benchmark as the least laggy for touch.  Nick 
may not believe in people voting with their wallets, but iOS 
devices have garnered Apple a couple hundred billion in profits 
so far:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-and-Apple-reportedly-earned-87.9-of-the-smartphone-market-profits-for-the-last-6-years_id54030

I suppose you can hate on Obj-C, but that's not really iOS.  The 
latest release got bogged down in all the bling, but that's more 
like Apple heaped too much icing on top: the cake is still great.

Why isn't iOS good?