> This incredible foresight will allow Apple to stay agile and maneuver in the face of what will be unrelenting competition I mean, there's plenty of arguments

> This incredible foresight will allow Apple to stay agile and maneuver in the face of what will be unrelenting competition I mean, there's plenty of arguments on both sides of it — yay Apple can make changes on a whim, boo my custom-baked solution makes me so productive — but calling it "incredible foresight" is a little overzealous. From Apple's perspective, they want an additional element of control, and to call it a huge breakthrough is a bit magoo. That said, Apple's not quite the type of company to be overly tied-down in the first place. These are the guys that ripped Carbon out from under a lot of people. Sure, it was clear Cocoa was getting all the TLC, but not a lot of companies would yank an established API quite that quickly (particularly with relative giants like Adobe sitting on it).