I would say that this is incorrectly worded. People have priorities, and those priorities show whether they truly have the hacker spirit or not.
> First, when I'm not hacking I think it's a nicer OS than the competition.
This already exposes that you are not a hacker. If you were, you would value the increased hackability and customizability that Android gives you, rather than the my-way-or-the-highway approach taken by iOS. The fact that you think iOS is nicer than the competition means that you aren't a hacker (in the original sense of the word).
> when I am hacking on things, I think it's a nicer OS to develop for. As a hacker I can call all the private APIs I like, run in the background, fork of child processes, and really just generally make a mess of things.
Again, this shows you are not truly a hacker. Part of the hacker ethos is sharing, and iOS restricts how you can share by not allowing those "private" APIs to be used in apps published on the App Store.
> I don't have to do any of it in Java (which after a day of work is a welcome relief).
This is an issue, but I would consider it a minor one compared to the other, more important problems.