You're quite childish to be a manager. I'm beginning to doubt even that claim.

And you don't understand what Java2ME is nor what it's limitations are. Hint: you can do very little of what DALVIK can do with J2ME. It's an extremely tight sandbox. You never had any job that required any serious knowledge of mobile devices, because you don't have any such knowledge.

Obviously you're going to make another childish post now. Feel free, you're not worth my time.

"ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper" = paper or plastic wrapped foil. Foil - as mentioned in the very post you are replying to. You got the light show I mentioned.

Try reading a post before hurling juvenile insults.

And you don't need me to show you a video. As I also mentioned Mythbusters already did it. Go watch them.

Because that worked oh so well with Windows PCs.

Copy & paste and multi-tasking are better on iOS than Android. Apple waited till they could do better than other companies, rather than just implementing a me-too feature.

As to hi-res, Apple was first to Retina level resolutions.

Note the words "on average". For sure there will be some people such as you describe. But their proportion is a hell of a lot higher amongst those who's only commitment was downloading an SDK.

And I'm a software engineer who has worked on creating several smartphones for more than one manufacturer.

The Blackberry 8700 only qualifies as a feature phone. (It used J2ME; it doesn't allow native third party apps.) And that's why it has feature phone expectations of battery life. And don't bother trying to link to things saying it was a smartphone - most of the world is ignorant as to what qualifies a device as a smartphone - I'm well aware there are plenty of people who wrongly identify many feature phones as smartphones.

As to your press release it makes it quite clear that Apple only provided the music functionality of the ROKR. (The FairPlay DRM and the integration with the iTunes Mac and PM app.) They didn't design the phone. If you believe otherwise you didn't understand what was going on.

If your development income isn't paying for your development machine, then you're not a professional. I'd rather buy from professionals than amateurs.

It's here as click bait. The link doesn't go to the original news site, it goes to Dice.com. Dice own slashdot. This has been happening more recently.

We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.

Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.

The whole point is that Apple won't include it unless it has a worthwhile use. Other companies play spec wars where there is no practical use of a technology for users. Apple doesn't.

Those that do go to conferences show themselves to be open to new ideas and to networking with other developers. Are they likely to be better or worse developers on average than those that don't go?

Good. With 1.3 million apps in the Apple App Store, there's enough already. Cutting out people who by their choice of PC show themselves to be less aware of good design is no bad thing.

Android only has more apps if you count malware and crapware. The app store guidelines and the need to get past a human tester is far more of a restriction on app numbers than the need to have Mavericks. The number one reason for app rejections is the discovery of bugs by the approvals staff. Equivalently buggy apps will find their way into the Android stores without any barrier.

In the old days the Soviets would have done it first, followed by America.

(Russua had the first artificial satellite, first animal in space, first human in space, first woman in space, first multi-person space craft, first spacewalk, first to the moon, first rover on the moon etc. It wasn't until the first manned moon landing that America caught up.)

You have a debating age of 7.