I didn't say the problem was the cost of development tools.<p>"can tell you from experience of having 7 siblings that if you gave them a iPad and gave them the dev tools, they (95% of people) wouldn't bother."<p>You can say that about the computer you're typing on. According to what you've just said the end of encouraging a "hacker like mentality" began with arrival of easy to use computers 25 years ago.