"So it won't kill programming."<p>Since no one said it would, you are knocking down strawmen. <i>Nothing</i> Apple could do, now or in the future  will kill programming. That is obvious.<p>"This article was submitted three times; the first time I asked that it be killed and the submitter graciously killed it for me. This is not of a tone appropriate for Hacker News."<p>This is fair. And very gentlemanly of you to ask that a submission be killed for inappropriateness. I read it as a submission on HN and in the context of HN it certainly sounds trollish.<p>as is "If you're so obsessed with tinkering that you think it's worth fucking around ". On <i>Hacker</i> News,  you call people who love to tinker with computers obsessive and label what they do "fucking around" and "non meaningful" (as judged by your Omniscient Wisdom?)  and still claim not to be trolling?<p>Interesting.