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The motives may be complex but I'm guessing it comes down to Apple not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device. Random runtime environm

The motives may be complex but I'm guessing it comes down to Apple not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device. Random runtime environments that Apple can't control? Hell no. Cross-platform apps that use the lowest common denominator of features and are slow? Nope, sorry. Apps that sit outside the walled garden that might be nefarious? Yeah, right. Jobs wants elegant and beautiful apps on his "revolutionary" device. If it's not one or both of those things, then he's probably not happy with it and doesn't want users to see it.

tmsh 16y ago
I didn't notice it until reading your response, but I suppose there's a pun on 'pure'. Pure environment, pure performance ('not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device' as you mention), and also pure as in honest. But purity is not really a word you want to overload.... Fundamentally incoherent to conflate two ideas about purity. And really deeply problematic. Anyhoo, thx for your thoughts.