Apple has been playing the class warfare/have vs have-not/status symbol card for a while now. It plays to exactly what we (the general masses) intrinsically fear -- being singled out, not being "in", not fashionable, looking like a dork, etc.... It's also one of the reasons why the 99% hate the 1% -- because the 1% flaunt their wealth in front of others. Do you want to be flaunted to? Or do you want to do the flaunting to those plebeian Android/Windows/BB/feature phone users?

We have to realize that Apple is a fashion company first, a tech company second. Blue bubbles, anyone? Or are you "green with envy"?

Webassembly runs inside the browser's sandbox, which is at least as good as running it natively on your OS in terms of security. That and NaCl/asm.js has been around already, so I'm not sure how this will be an issue.

That's a pretty naive interpretation of Webassembly. Let's address your comments.

1) Yes, the target audience are in the native code camp. But outside of mobile, there is no good delivery mechanism, other than the web. This is basically doing that: brining the web to native apps.
2) There is no cross platform sandbox for running native apps, and this delivers on that. All modern browsers at least attempt at security, whereas non mobile platforms offer very little in terms of security against native apps.
3) Computers aren't getting "fast enough" (or much faster, for that matter). Especially not for mobile, which will always be slow because of power requirements. This spec will greatly help with that.

So it serves many purposes, and I think is a wonderful boon to the web.

Well, the improved self-learnt system is, by their definition, their next version.

YT hasn't released Red in Argentina doesn't mean they don't want to. Do you think they have the resources to simultaneously come to an agreement with all copyright holders at the same time, do all the market research, marketing, and engineering resources? Whining like this just makes you look like an entitled brat.

What makes you think Radiohead has chosen to monetize? That is also configurable as well.

And I would like to know which one of those annoying ads came from Google. Blaming advertising in its entirety is like saying all web browsers suck because IE6 was such a POS.

I did a random sampling of Ads from sites I read from. The ones I see featuring ads that you mentioned are from advertisers like Taboola, or what not. Not one of them was from Google ads. The only Google ads that caught my attention (i.e. non-text ads) were quite relevant ads on /. itself. Ads such as semiconductor gadgets and cloud software solutions. So which one of Google's ad network did you see those advertisements from?

Just like a pharma company doesn't really need you to take every drug they manufacture, Google doesn't need to get your info with every software they make. You either think that the vast majority of Google engineers are moral-less bastards, or do I sense a hint of sour grapes?

Apple releases iOS when they feel like it. Google releases Android semi-annually (until recently, which I'm sure the security updates are exactly that -- fixing vulnerabilities). The fact that the release process was such a PITA has no relation to how much Android devs were hardening their system.

Jetbrains doesn't provide the Android Studio platform, they provide the underlying base editor of the Android Studio platform.

In ART, the apk is already in dex format (done by the build tools). On device, they are recompiled to the oat format. This last step is also what's done again in the optimization step, since as libs change, the dex needs to be "relinked" to the zygote image. See here.

Isn't webkit...Apple? Android weaned itself off of webkit a while ago.

Isn't the Google self driving car supposed to be cheap?

When did I talk about equality between police and civilians? I never did and neither did the article, so I have no idea what you're responding to. On the other hand, I'm referring to the original article, where the police is afraid of doing their job because they're scrutinized for their work, perhaps even taken out of context. I think you lacking reading comprehension and setting up a straw man is reality.