Comment by seec

Exactly and in my opinion, this is (in parts) what kills the value proposition of Apple hardware recently. If you are going to have to pay a lot for software, why bother with a platform that was supposed to simplify development to make it less expensive to dev small software? People have forgotten what the Mac and its UI/framework were all about.

As for the mobile platforms I just don't care for it much anymore. I think Jobs was right from the get go with the iPhone: the functionality that was first announced is the most important, every else is just not very necessary. Most apps are a wrapper for a web app for some smart caching anyway. In any case the small screen size and obligatory use of fingers for input make it a slow imprecise tool for any doing stuff and I believe this is why the smartphone is such a content consumption addiction machine, there is just not much else that it does well...