There are now 2 indoor quads in the apartment. 1 is a floor sample Syma X1, with an unknown number of crashes. The remaning Syma X1 isn't as stable as the 1st one. All the Syma X1's have a self leveling behavior, but the floor sample is less effective.


You can't have a viable UAV product without a tablet interface, so Android development begins. It's slow & clunky, but the standard if anyone is to use your software. You can't possibly consider it a competitor to iOS on usability. Its only advantage is iOS only being on 1 tablet & low price.


There are many memories of walking into a brick & mortar computer store, seeing shelf after shelf of cheap PC software, then a shelf in the back with Mac software at ridiculous prices. Andoid of course requires developing in Eclipse, which is also slow & loaded with bugs. Failures to reload projects abound, with reimporting usually necessary.

When it works, programming is more about knowing where to find things than solving a problem. The automatic suggestions are very useful in today's world of a new framework every 3 months, where you can't learn the nuances of every single framework.

When was the last time you actually took the time to learn the nuances of any language? It's been my experience that most languages end up being flavors of the month.