I believe part of the reason Apple is forced to have "restrictive" development requirements and stringent rules about apps is because they NEED the user experience to be consistently top-notch. Look at all the hate directed at something like Windows by the uninformed.. if an app sucks on Windows, people tend to blame Windows. If Apple allowed for free selection of tools and languages and did not control delivery of apps then it would be much more difficult for them to provide the proper infrastructure that allows MOST apps to feel like a real Apple experience.

I had a quick look at this and other articles and the TPL website and found no mention of how they arrived at this decision. Did they ask young people what they wanted? Formally? Informally?

... until they let me mail in my gas and parking receipt and get reimbursed for the trip to the b&m.

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