To the author: I could not agree more.  In the long term history of computing, I would hope this stage we are in now is not the height of the &quot;revolution&quot;.<p>In my humble opinion, to which I am entitled, current Apple hardware is still well-designed like the Apple hardware of the past, but none of it resembles a &quot;bicycyle for the mind&quot;.<p>These phones and tablets are &quot;computers&quot; but are programmable only by permission; they are consumption instruments that are meant to support some plan to dominate the communications, media, entertainment industries.  Not my idea of a programmable, pocket-sized, networked computer.<p>All due respect to Apple and their wild commercial success, but looking to the future, I get more excited about my RPi or Teensy than I do about my Apple devices.<p>I have little interest in paying for a license to a bloated, complex, proprietary IDE (Xcode) and seeking approval from an &quot;app store&quot; when I can write ARM assembly from a netbook or laptop using a free and open source assembler and run it instantly on the RPi.<p>The revolution is yet to come.  I hope.  kparc.com&#x2F;o.htm