They can use the Quicktime API to decode h264. Instead, they want their own code to access hardware acceleration. Given that Flash is a popular source of trouble in OS X, I don't expect Apple to make it worse by giving them hardware access.

Of course 99% is crapware, in what kind of app store would be that different? But don't deny there are also great, innovative, and useful applications: Guitar Toolkit, Tap Tap, Ocarina, Remote, Shazam, Wobble, ...

FYI that classics guy asked Delicious Library creator Wil Shipley for his blessing before Classics was released because of the similarities between both applications. Wil recently twittered:

I guess it's not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product's look. Flattery?

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Pages. Numbers. Keynote. iTunes. All these started out as products at tiny companies, not Apple. Innovation comes from them.

I heard BSD allows it because it was funded by DARPA to stimulate the development of science, which eventually would lead to the technological superiority of the USA for the benefit of its private held industry. Then others continued that work, probably forced at gunpoint to accept such outrageous license.

Did you know that some programmers spend at least 8 hours daily reading on a LCD? What strains your eyes is an inadequate contrast between ambient light and your device. LCD is usable, e-ink is better because not having light of its own, it's always adjusted to the environment.

Adobe can shove... well, let's just say that Flash on OS X is slow, insecure, and Adobe won't fix it.

They want you to buy in the AppStore. So far it's doing great.

iPad: Browsing, email, photos, video, music, games, ebooks.
Watch the Keynote.

As for the stories spreading around the internet, yes we have noticed them. Unfortunately, this is a case of people taking the opinions of a few anonymous posters on message boards as fact. No business is ever perfect, but Rockstar Games is a tight knit team made up of around 900 supremely talented and motivated professionals, many of whom have worked here for a very long time. We’re saddened if any former members of any studio did not find their time here enjoyable or creatively fulfilling and wish them well with finding an environment more suitable to their temperaments and needs, but the vast majority of our company are focused solely on delivering cutting edge interactive entertainment. We’ve always cared passionately about the people working here, and have always tried to maintain a supportive creative environment. There is simply no way Rockstar could continue to produce such large scale, high quality games without this.

..what? overtime in the gaming industry? oh, not us, it would be impossible to produce games like that

If you think Rockstar management is honest I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Control also means better quality, that's why App Store tops 3 billion downloads. Average Joe couldn't care less about Apple rejecting around 30 applications out of 100,000 or RMS-like comments about freedom. Compare that to 16,000 apps on the Android Market where bizarre UIs make it through and reviews are filled with spam.

It's not like the built a brilliant device and then created a bad App Store, quality control is part of the success.

...It’s Not Worth Doing Right.

Working with impossible deadlines, broken design, non paid extra hours, and intense pressure, there is a point where you spend daily 12 hours working in the office, except you are not working, why would you? you are just fooling working half of the time, and tagging along until the next gig. Putting all your effort you could finish in 3 years instead 4, but when management was hoping to finish in less than two, what would be your reward? exactly the same.

Your project may not be like this one, but no doubt about it there is something extremely wrong on it, other than what you are telling.

Apple says Nokia's patents aren't actually essential to GSM / UMTS, denies infringing them, and says they're invalid and / or unenforceable anyway. Apple also says Nokia wanted unreasonable license terms for the patents, including a cross-license for Apple's various iPhone device patents as part of any deal, which Apple clearly wasn't willing to do.

I call that a healthy ecosystem that prevents vendor lock-in. That's how you grow free software like Spring and Hibernate that is mostly what you need to know these days. But saying that having more than one IDE is a problem speaks a lot of your attitude.

Ha! bullshit. Any J2EE standard application runs on any J2EE compliant server, prove me wrong if you can. There are a few exceptions, corner cases, and weakness of the jvm spec that you probably don't know, but they don't amount, by far, to say that WORA doesn't work.

Apple products target the high end market which is smaller in itself. Still, when the iPhone collects a third of handset industry profits and tops the consumer satisfaction surveys, it means it is one of the greatest products of all time.

• The root of the problem: software is not music. Songs sell without iTunes, songs don't harm the device, songs don't bug. But songs are also not essential to sell the device...
• Approvals: Emergencies..., Maintenance releases aren't viable...
• Upgrades: currently there is no upgrade revenue...
• Better rules: clear rules will make the process easier for everyone...
• Better experience for customers: Product evaluations..., Respond to reviews..., Finding apps..., Charge us more money..., Pricing...