He should have started with his first sentence - and then stopped.. Sry, but this article is far from being objective. If you're going to say that a missing garbage collector is a feature, you could be one of those guys who use C for string operations. There always should be a choice of tools to get a job done. Of course: low(er) level languages have their justification (and I tend to like working in them!) - but the programmer is the one who should decide when to use what. Freedom in software development - of course - is something you value highly or you don't, that's a choice everyone has to make for her/himself. But I don't see the "genius" here. If I take one quote: "Our top priority is to provide a great end-user experience, not to make your life as a developer easy." - this EXACTLY is, what I don't quite get. In my opinion, the best developers are those who see no difference between work and fun. Imprisoning them in a set of rules will scare them away. That is something, every company in Apple's position should think twice about before risking it.

It's the same thing about the app store - the problem is not, that there is an app store or that the app store sucks. The problem is that you, as a dev, have no choices.

Apple is taking away choices and that is why I would never, ever make them profit through my work. They don't make the world a better place for me, even though they could easily.

This article is highly misleading: he talks about minor problems and ignores the big ones and drags the discussion to a level where Apple might have a stand.