Very rarely parts of some houses will just fall on their own after the initial shake.
Presumably we're to read into that that the developers had poor toilet training and had sexual fantasies about their mothers and cat.

I'm confused as well. Does this mean Amateur Hour is back on?

Sell it to RIM!

You don't like that classic rock band The Whom?

I would think the iPhone and iOS 5 are somewhat more complex than Google's email app.

Not to mention 5.0.1 beta is already out to developers which resolves the issues.

That's why I specified "developers' program cost"; it seems to be the nit the GP wanted to pick.

You forgot the cost of setting up an actual online shop. SSL certificates aren't free, nor are online card processors which take a percentage.

But hey, at least he'd be saving $99 and sticking it to The Man... :)

If you sell your app for 99 cents, you only need sell ~144 copies in the year to break even on the $99 developers' program cost.

That's small peanuts. Even moderately cheap webhosting would cost you that much for a year.

Great points all.

Jobs spent years embedding his way of doing things into Apple's way of doing things. I think the majority of people at the VP level and up have to be true believers to get where they are. Compare that to most other companies where it's "Just a Job", the resultant work speaks for itself. I don't doubt that any of the SVPs at Apple would do a good job at running any company in their respective fields.

Tangent: I wrote Apple in 1981 for a job and including some 6502 assembly code I had written among other stuff. Actually received a reply to the effect of "We can't hire 15 year olds, but we love what you can do. Try again when you're 18." I never did try again, but have this nagging What-If in my head.

Seconded!

I'd rather it have 2 network ports.

VLANs, baby!

Ah... that explains the lock-jaw and hemorrhoids.

That's the same reason I was forced out of pr0n. They couldn't believe the stamina this 45 year old had. Kept breaking the women.

Here in .ca we have rules about government sites needing to be bilingual with a common look-and-feel to them.

We had a site that was only of interest to geeks throughout our department. I did some digging and it turns out that things like source code aren't covered by the rules. So I started posting pages that looked like

// information.c

/* info blah blah blah
blah blah more blah blah blah etc etc blah
blah blah more crap blah blah

blah blah info blah
*/

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{ printf("Hello World"); }

Was asked about it by people from Ottawa, explained it, never had a problem.