And all the snot-nosed, socially retarded, little script kiddies huddled in their Mom's basements pawing their greasy fingers over their creaky little POS plastic shitbox computers somehow don't think they are the "World's Greatest Hax0rs(tm)"?

Yeahrightsure.

Ahem. Get your facts straight.

One of the Developers of VLC decided to have a hissy fit and VOLUNTARILY REMOVED VLC from the App Store. Apple didn't "ban" VLC. VLC "banned" ITSELF.

And F/OSS? Point to me where it says that App Store apps (whether iOS or OS X) cannot have F/OSS code in them? Hell, on the Apple website, the damned *OS*(es) have pages crowing about the number of F/OSS Projects that OS X (and iOS) incorporate (and to which Apple contributes and/or has initiated themselves).

WTF is your problem, hater?

Citation, please.

Yeah. Well come back when you can answer a phone call on your shitastic Lin/Win laptop using your Android phone in your bookbag with zero configuration.

And Apple had them on the Mac as "Desk Accessories" in 1984, and even a primitive form on the Lisa in 1983, bitch.

You do realize, of course, that you are talking about the company that literally wrote the book on good, consistent UI design, right?

The above, linked pdf copy dates from 1995 (the earliest actual copy I could find in a 2 minute search), but Apple first published their most-excellent HIG manual on or around 1985, before most slashdotters were even born.

Now, get off my lawn!

Ok, I know for a fact (by having several email volleys with the Developer) that Eagle PCB/Schematic Capture, etc. CAD/CAE suite uses Qt on OS X.

http://www.cadsoftusa.com/

And I'm sure there are some others on this list. In fact, about 1/2 of the Qt-based engineering apps listed at the bottom of the page list OS X as a Target OS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

And if you want Proprietary software with OS X versions that use Qt, here's a list. I'm sure you'll recognize most of these apps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Now, having said all that, Qt is horrible. But not unpopular...

Mod Parent UP.

That is EXACTLY it in a nutshell. Perfectly described.

Pretty devious way for someone like the NSA (or a Prince from Nairobi) to get their hooks into your Android.

Shudder...

And, unlike the case with the vast majority of Android Devices, since Apple actually pushes update notices to iOS Devices, there is actually a pretty good chance that yours will be on the list."

And before the haters cry that the latest ssl patch wasn't pushed out to iOS 5 users (or before), remember that the ssl vulnerability came with iOS 6; iOS 5 and before did not have the vulnerability.

So, we should be expecting a similar report from MS regarding iOS, then?

Oh, wait; I said "iOS", right?...

Haven't been watching OS X for the past three or 4 years, right?

I found this in about .5 secs on Google.

But you conveniently fail to mention three very important facts: 1. Apple has brought back nearly all of the capabilities of FCP 7. There isn't a mass-exodus anymore (actually, ther never was. Most FCP 6 or 7 users simply continued to use those versions until FCPX matured), and many Pros have actually switched back. 2. Apple launched a campaign this March, specifically targeted at video professionals, effectively saying "Come on in. FCPX is ready" 3. The recent "paradigm-shift" update to Logic Pro, making it look more like FCPX, has been nearly universally Praised; PARTICULARLY for the fact that all, or nearly all, of the "old features" have been retained, along with the added benefit of the re-factored GUI. So, Apple DOES care about Pros and their Pro Apps, and Apple DOES learn from its mistakes. Now, here comes the ad Hominem attack based on my Username...

No, you know what looks dated: The UI elements in the Windows Modern UI (Windows 8, Ms Server 2012, et al.). I swear it's like they pulled up the Windows 3.1 theme...

Dear Steve, Heard about the reorganization. Sounds great! Keep up the good work! It's visionaries like you that have made Microsoff what it is today. -Tim Cook

Exactly. As an autodidactic embedded dev. With over 3 decades of paid experience, who now has to content myself writing Windows business-apps, THE biggest problem in securing a job that isn't a "handshake deal" is getting past the HR weenie with the buzzword-checklist. If your can't get past that person, you'll never be able to talk to the person that will understand that you can walk the walk...