[eeeeeeeeeeeee]

Are you joking? Look at the developer community in OS X and iOS that are constantly tinkering and learning.

Jobs was absolutely an asshole, but to say he "set us all back" is preposterous.

[soperj]

You can develop on iOS? Can you do anything on iOS aside from what apple allows you? Not if someone hadn't figured out how to jailbreak the device.

[scott_karana]

Yes, I think it's really important to remember that the initial versions of iOS only allowed for JavaScript widgets, no applications at all!

Enterprising hackers who jailbroke the devices paved the way for the App Store as we know it: not Apple.