You can install whatever you please on an iOS device, you just need to be a member of the developer program to do it. Yes it costs money. no, it isn't a lot.

You know carriers know what handset you use, and apple has agreements with their carriers, right?

95% plus of people are not interested in computers for computers sake. They may be teachers, scientists or business moguls. Not necessarily fucktards - just not interested in computers. For them, a computer is a tool like a hammer or a screwdriver, that they only use to get a job done. Fucking around with PC brain damage rather than spending their valuable time doing what they would rather be doing is something that Apple minimises for them.

Because it has a touchscreen for everything else?

Similar experience here. First of the Android/iOS handsets was a iPhone 3G. Jailnbroke it. Ran quake. realised that touch sucks for quake. Installed a few themes.

Upgraded to a 3G-S. didn't bother to jailbreak. Didn't miss it. Have run iOS primarily ever since.

Dabbled with Android on a HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S3. Noticed that many apps do not scale to the screen properly. Encountered folder bug on HTC One (created a folder in the launcher I could not delete until updating firmware). Noticed bug in alarm clock - didn't wake me up. Noticed scrolling was less smooth than my 3-4 year old iPhone from 2008. Constantly annoyed with the UI and crappy email program.

Didn't find anything to hold me to the platform and the UI was annoying. Handset quality was not as good - the S3 feels like a plastic child's toy, and the buttons on the bottom of the HTC one are awkward to use with one hand.

10.4 is from 2005. Let me know how you go downloading binaries for a Linux distribution from 2005.

Try using a 16x9 tablet for email or web browsing, then try it on an iPad or Surface Pro 3 and get back to me. 4:3 is a compromise for the form factor. It isn't designed purely for watching videos. Besides, if you want something optimised for videos, you want 2.3:1. But that aspect ratio on a tablet is clearly ridiculous. So is 16x9, once you've actually tried it back to back with something more close to square.

Hand-balling security to the end user, when 90% of end users are muppets will not work, as demonstrated by the malware success on the Windows platform. Android is the Windows XP of smartphones. The rest of the world has tried that approach for the past 30 years, seen that it is not viable, and moved on. End users are not, and will not ever be, or care to be security experts. Apple gets that. Microsoft is beginning to get that. Android fans who say that leaving security stuff to the end user do not get that. Yet. It will come.

Yes, if people haven't watched the keynote, you need to take Cook's comments in context. It was a light dig, said with a humorous tone whilst discussing sales numbers, os upgrade numbers and customer satisfaction survey results.

Exactly. In fact I'm pretty sure I recall Steve mentioning in an interview that he was lucky to have been there with Apple for 2 revolutionary products - the Apple II and the iPod - and that most companies are extremely lucky to ever see one revolutionary product get to market. Building your business model around reliably releasing revolutionary products year after year is setting yourself up for failure.

Not every release has to be a revolution. Simply making things better than the rest of the market, and selling them for a price those who want decent hardware will pay for has proven to be reasonably profitable.

No. Apple's business model is "don't build bargain basement crap". It just so happens that now and again, those "not bargain basement crap" items end up being groundbreaking, because plenty of other companies get to market first with garbage, or don't see the market at all.

Apple's prices haven't been high for a good 6-7 years or more now. Yes, i'm aware you can buy a laptop for $250. It's garbage. The trackpad will suck, the screen will suck, the OS will suck, etc. I've yet to use a PC laptop (and being the person who evaluates PC hardware purchase for my company, I see a lot) that feels as well engineered as a functional product as my 2011 Macbook Pro, at any price.

And this is where I am sure somebody will pull out some paper specs (which are largely irrelevant) claiming PC hardware superiority. Missing the point entirely.

So, now i've seen the keynote.... how does a new programming language, automatically synced application state between devices and seamless use of mobile network for calling from your mac strike you? Does any other company offer anything similar? No, thought not.

Why is this allegation constantly leveled at Apple? What have Samsung done? What has Google done? Fact is, revolutionary hardware or software doesn't come around very often. If Apple are doing such a poor job, what is your suggestion?

The mac mini is plenty for enterprise use, as is the MBA. The hardware is not the problem. It's the immaturity of enterprise management tools. No, macs don't need anywhere near as much IT management, but the enterprise will be slow to acknowledge that, and without proper enterprise management, they will not be readily accepted.

Yup. Guaranteed quality digital content (no crapshoot with downloading torrents), its relatively cheap ($2-$4 = not worth my time screwing around with dodgy rips), and if your internet connection is say 6-8 megabit or faster streaming is no problem at all.

I really believe that decent broadband will have a signifnicant impact on consumer storage. I would bet that most people with multiple tb of storage at home (note, not all - i'm sure there are exceptions, so don't both saying "i have a heap of legitimate content") are using it purely to store ripped or illegally downloaded media. Convenient, cheap streaming = bottom will drop out of the storage market.