On 5/15/12 10:48 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Apple's corporate allergy to user programming is, I'm pretty sure, a consequence of Jobs' inability to program.
I know that you are 1/2 kidding. IMHO, the real reason is that casual programmers is not their target market. Apple makes closed, easy to support, easy to market, consumer electronics for the masses (or as Apple once put it, "for everyone else"). Open consumer electronics is the anomaly, not the norm. A PC with Linux is about as open as you can get, and even then the firmware and lower level BIOS code is not open.
Asking a company to be open is the same as asking to give up control. If I had to pick a single word for Jobs, it would be "control".