2 billionth Cocoa Touch developer sold out

Sadly, he learned nothing from the experience:

There is no alternative platform, despite what others may say about Android, it’s immature and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare. It really is Apple’s way or the highway, and that really stinks.

Often in history the powerful have confounded the weak with a false dilemma: that the alternative to absolute power is chaos. Just give Mr. X ultimate authority and he’ll use it to improve your little life. But dictators once empowered never seem to rule as benevolently as their admirers expect. They’re self-interested and cruel. They are terribly human.

Even and especially the most devoted followers of a personality cult find themselves among its collateral damage. Ruined, some take refuge in their faith—a belief in the ruler’s divine appointment or perhaps his dedication to the mystery known lately as user experience. Others snap out of this spell by invoking an older one: WYSIWYG.

We’re lucky, at least in computing, to still have choices.