>Apple doesn't care about the distribution of apps. Gatekeeper makes that abundantly clear.
Apple placing additional controls on how developers can distribute their applications and granting themselves the ability to selectively revoke that privilege is proof that they don't care about distribution? Would you care to explain that to me?
They would never do this because only a manager would hire someone like an "Agile coach". A fully flat organization has no managers, hence, the hired consultant would be forced to advocate for the dismissal of his own client.
When he posted a comment in which he said essentially that, and in which he referenced a one-sided article that goes to extreme lengths to attack blue collar workers' retirement plans and their own collective efforts at bettering their economic self-interest.
The point should be clear as day by now; if you can't extract the basic message and argument from his comment then you have no basis for inserting yourself into the debate. Please don't waste any more of my time.
It makes his point irrelevant; those workers' interests pale in comparison to that of the owning interests of those corporations. He presents unions as the sole cause of the problem, which is not only intellectually deceitful, but quite incorrect. More importantly, it reveals an underlying agenda that needs to be challenged as strongly as possible in civic discourse.
In fact, private prisons and unionized guards aren't even on the same side, due to the former hiring largely non-union labor. And the private prison industry has been growing and lobbying faster than ever:
Private prison companies such as Wackenhut stand to profit in the billions from increased rates of incarceration. There is absolutely no question about who benefits the most. Please take your blatant anti-worker agenda and shove it.
>However, they're also adding to the language in ways that makes the code expressed in Objective-C simpler:
>Synthesizing properties
>Dot-syntax for accessing getters/setters
>Garbage Collection
>Blocks (closures)
>Automatic Reference Counting
>Weak references
Sorry, but none of these things make the language any simpler — they all add yet another style of doing things that only raises the bar and the learning curve for new developers when reading existing code, in precisely the same way that C++ and Perl have done. And this is true even of garbage collection (which, by the way, is deprecated in 10.8), because it needs to coexist with other frameworks and code that might not be garbage-collected, and more importantly because all heap-allocated C buffers consequently require their own low-level wrappers (e.g., NSAllocateCollectable, objc_memmove_collectable, etc.).
It's really not that difficult. Adjust the income tax brackets and raise the rates. Oh yeah, and go flush your disgusting self-serving libertarian/objectivist philosophy down the drain, too.
Nope, don't try to shift the issue. We're talking about simply allowing others to compile code for PPC — not releasing brand new operating systems. Apple isn't merely ignoring it — they're going out of their way to prevent even third-parties from supporting it.