We need to have version control for some plugins we use. If there are no controls to prevent new versions from being loaded then it will be imposible to version control

Except we are talking a scale close to 80,000 PETABYTES. Thats not cheap to store.

Storage in this case isnt trivial. You are talking about a scale we dont have. If atomic storage was available sure, but its not, and we have to use traditional forms which would make the data center the size of Delaware.

The storage DOESNT EXIST. It takes only basic knowledge of technology and our technical capabilities to know its physically impossible to do this without it being beyond obvious thanks to the amount of storage needed and the amount of power it would drain. The rooms very well exists, but to do what he is saying they can do requires trillions of dollars and a data center the size of a small STATE.

The hallway time is the reason to go. Some of the sessions and labs get your in person with the leads of most of the teams and its not unheard of for app developers or companies who have issues to vent them there and see software updates in the future reflect those problems. The sessions they post online for everyone, but the hallway time and closed discussions are absolutely worth the cost of 1-2 tickets, not to mention you are not just talking about Apple here, but Google comes and pretty much every major developer is there.

You realize most of those attendee's are major companies right? While in the past a lot of "consumers" would manage to get a ticket to this, these days its massively frowned upon and I would venture to say 80-90% of those tickets went to companies looking to send their developers for facetime with the heads of Apples Mac and iOS development teams about issues/concerns/ideas.

The days of jackasses like Violet Blue coming to a developer conference to hob nob when she doesnt know shit about being a developer have long passed when people started to care about app development and iOS.

They learn how to properly use launchd items in OS X if they are going to be supporting Apple. Learning how to use a preference .plist so we can remotely manage updates without having to write bash scripts and stuff would help to

"Many of theses devices have upgrades available." Actually part of the problem is many of them do, but the carriers are specifically blocking them from being released.

The only "fanboi" rubbish here is yours, I record my music and administer my servers in SSH perfectly fine on my iPad, and have done the same on my Android.

Actually looking at his gripes, and they are so far and away from legitimate that there is a very valid argument to be made that he's full of shit.

This has been absolutely done by the iPad and other tablets. People love to make the claim you can not create content on the iPad but its been proven time and again for the most part to be false beyond a few exceptions you can create just fine. People code on them, people write blogs or even books on them, people record and perform music on them etc. They are still a Gen 2 device atm though regardless of the marketing speek (or maybe Gen 3).

Even this is disingenuous because Apple doesn't in any way prevent a people from creating a good app uploading it to the store for free and let people download it for free. It shows a blatent misunderstanding of the app store, and reasons behind it. It also shows a 60/70's naïvety toward how nasty our computing world has become toward attacking other users for personal and political gain.

BULLLLL SHIIIIIIT Sorry dude this arguments used time and again and is completely bogus since it 100% always fails to factor in the carbon costs of producing a car/bus while counting the minute detail of producing food. Worse it also fails to factor in that the food will be produces NO MATTER WHAT since we need it to survive while the car doesnt have to be produced and if it wasn't that whole chain of costs is eliminated.

Funny I can ssh and code on my iPad just fine without even jailbreaking.... also my iPhone. So sorry that "consumption" category is bullshit.

you are a moron. Its a input device and one you can actually add yourself. By your definition all those barebones PCs out there and even some major manufacturers wouldnt be PC's cause they dont ship with a keyboard or mouse!

Technically the NES was hawked as a PC and in Japan had ways to make it run as a PC. and the PS3 at one time allowed for users to install Linux as did the PS2

you wish. Apple's stock is not going even near their 1997 numbers for a long long time. Get a god damn grip, Apples going to be around for a long while, especially when they are the biggest single share of the mobile market, bigger than even Samsung when you break down the numbers and OS.