Just to chime in, I've been using rubymotion for a couple weeks and used RMQ for some toy apps. I now have switched to Promotion. I may come back to RMQ but my goal is the quickest path to an MVP on iOS. It seems Promotion is a bit easier (as I have no prior iOS experience) but I could be wrong.
I think RMQ seemed really great, and I do think I could get where I'm going using it (but maybe a little slower). If I recall, working with tableviews is where I switched to Promotion. Tableviews are dead simple for Promotion. I saw your video on the more complex view (the name is escaping me at the moment) but I am generally going to be using the tableview.
At the end of the day, none of the offerings have solid documentation (with examples!). For my needs, Promotion (so far) happened to have the documentation and examples in the places I needed it. I would definitely switch to a framework if it had easier to use docs and examples, but that's just me. I'm not a typical developer (computational physicist and musician turned web/mobile dev).
Well said, and the exact reason I moved away from consulting after a decade of doing it.
The developers often get blamed for "not understanding how real people use the system". Most features are requested by C level people who have never actually used the system.
While consulting, I've actually been told NOT to talk to the users who will be using the system. In a large enterprise it is often about power and politics, it is rarely about building value and increasing productivity.
On my father's side, 4 generations, my great grandmother was born here in the US, but her parents came from Germany. Interestingly she never spoke English, only German, in an all German community in Kansas.
On my mother's side, 1000s of generations in what is now called Oklahoma. The US formed around them as the illegal immigrants from Europe swarmed in.
