> Surely the correct solution for mobile developers is to teach people to use restraint in piling on extra crud, not bootstrap some extra crud that prevents the

> Surely the correct solution for mobile developers is to teach people to use restraint in piling on extra crud, not bootstrap some extra crud that prevents them from using any other crud. Any time you have to rely on lots of disparate people, all potentially under wildly different pressures and facing diverse incentives, to make the same smart choices... you may be facing an uphill battle. We've tried to rely on exactly what you call for. It's such an obviously, clearly, good idea. Painfully so. We've been trying it for quite a long time by now. It's difficult to call it a success. Openness, flexibility, and interoperability are great and wonderous things. It's a tragedy, then, that so many use the tools and powers granted them by these virtues so apallingly poorly.