Comment by babypuncher

> If you do that, iOS nags your user to make it stop. If you access radios, iOS nags your user to disable it.

These are features, because we can't trust developers to be smart about how they implement these. In fact, we can't even trust them not to be malicious about it. User nags keep the dveloper honest on a device where battery life and all-day availability is arguably of utmost importance.

> you have to spend $5k minimum just to put hello world on the screen.

Now that's just nonsense.