[solomone]

It's what I always find odd about the incredible open armed love of developers for Apple. People used to hate Micro$oft ( $ uses for emphasis. ) I can't imagine what the 90's would look like if MS took 30% of every software sale and decided what software could and could not exist on it's OS. The walled garden's have peeps and minor outrage, but I never understood why it wasn't more of a roar.

[archagon]

Apps are the spiritual successor to the single-purpose applets that riddled our pre-smartphone phones and other appliances. They were always proprietary and always relatively simple. It's only recently that we've gotten the ability to perform more complicated tasks with our apps.