Which means, the first REALISTIC date for Exchange eligibility would have been October 2014.
Which is why I'll never understand why the Democrats didn't take the Republicans up on their offer to delay the thing by a year. Everyone had to know it wouldn't be ready. They should have been jumping at the chance to be allowed to wait a year.
But, nope, instead they had to rush in head-first, and now we've got two disasters on our hands.
Well, of course. The Democrats want this shutdown probably more than the Republicans - they're convinced it will be a repeat of 1996, and they'll get the House back in 2014. I'm not entirely sure they're correct, but make no mistake, the Democrats want this shutdown too.
Here's a better question: why doesn't iOS 7 work with iOS 6 compatible apps?
That officially rules Apple out of being "the new Microsoft:" Microsoft has never been dumb enough to break existing apps on their OSes. If there's one thing Microsoft deserves credit for, it's the ridiculous extents they go through to make sure old apps keep working.
Apple is the exact opposite way: if you allow Mac OS X to upgrade your iOS development environment, you will entirely lose the ability to target anything except iOS 7. There is no way to go back, other than to find "pirated" sources of older versions of Xcode. (Xcode is free, so "pirated" isn't quite the right word here, but you know what I mean - sources that don't use the Apple app store.)
Not to mention the thing where the lightning cable apparently has a chip in the cable itself to verify itself with the phone. Turning the "cheap and easily replaceable" bit into "an unnecessary expensive and wasteful thing."
The lightning cable and connector should die, and Apple should be forced to use micro USB just like everyone else.
And it's Apple's fault that this route is open to drivers?
No, but if you read the article, it most certainly is Apple's fault that it's decided that Taxiway Bravo is "the Fairbanks airport."
The maps are correct. They don't treat the runway as a road, and they include the car access roads that run through the airport. The problem is that it declares "the airport" to be a point next to the runway, and then tells drivers how to get there. Once the driver gets there, they find the terminal across the runway and just blindly drive across it.
All Apple has to do is fix this is move the POI that is "Fairbanks Airport" to be the actual terminal and not some point next to the runway.
Of course, as far as I can tell, Apple literally never updates POIs. When iOS 6 came out, I looked through it around my neighborhood, and the POIs were hilariously misplaced. (Things like stores that are literally in the same building being displayed as being blocks apart.) The last time I checked, which, granted, was like a month ago, they were still wrong. And, yes, I submitted a "correction" thing after someone pointed out the gray-link on a gray-background hidden behind a menu for you to "report problems."
The problem is entirely with Apple's data. The maps themselves are good, the search and POIs - you know, the stuff Apple does - are just flat-out broken.
Yes, called realMyst. The graphics are actually better in realMyst than the prerendered Myst graphics were. Myst's graphics were actually pretty bad, we just didn't notice at the time.
Really? Excel is one of your top three selling points to consumers?
One of the (very few) selling points for the new iPhone 5C and 5S is that they now come with Apple's spreadsheet program for free, so - yes, apparently this is a thing people want? And that's not even on tablets, that's on a new phone.
In any case, yes, office apps are a thing people use on tablets. Tablets are getting used in the office these days as they're more portable for certain applications. They're getting used enough that Apple decided to make their office apps free on new devices.
If even Apple thinks people want spreadsheets on their tablets, I think it's safe to say that it's a thing people want, even if it isn't anything I'd ever want.
Remember the Boston Bombing? Those guys were "anonymous" but quickly found out that they weren't really "unknown". Pictures surfaced, faces were identified, and the search was quickly started.
Well... maybe.
What you need to remember is that the only reason the Boston Marathon bombers were caught as quickly as they were was because the bombers decided to kill a police officer and hijack a car. They were not caught because of pictures - they were caught because the guy who they hijacked escaped without his smartphone, which the police were then able to track.
They were only definitively identified when the first bomber was in the morgue.
Because of this, it's impossible to say whether or not they ever would have been identified by the pictures taken at the marathon itself. Had they instead just gone into hiding without killing a police officer and without hijacking a car - who knows how long it would have taken to identify them, let alone catch them?
But instead they chose the cheapest possible route and pretend that putting the USB logo on one side of the connector somehow makes obvious (it doesn't) which way to plug it in.
And that's apparently not even a requirement, because I have a WD USB drive that helpfully puts the WD logo on the side you're supposed to have up and the USB logo on the side which is down - exactly the opposite of the "standard" way USB cables are "supposed" to work.
You are so right. Oh btw, where can I get a full source code for the very specific software on my Galaxy S3? Can I download it from Samsung? How about the hardware design?
Does the S3 contain a scanner that scans personal biometric data in such a place that you can't possibly avoid touching it?
You're absolutely right that there's a limit to the amount of trust you can have in a device. There's simply no way to verify everything.
Fortunately, with most phones, you don't have to worry about something as sensitive as your fingerprints being scanned, so the level of paranoia about the device can be toned down a bit. You can know not to talk about certain things on your cell phone and avoid putting sensitive data on it.
Not so with the iPhone 5S. You'd have to be seriously insane to touch one of those. Literally, in the case of its home button!
The fingerprint is saved locally and encrypted on the individual phone's A7 chip. Never goes to iCloud. Never touches Apple servers.
Ah, so we've looked through the source code and hardware design to verify that's the case? I mean, the source code and hardware are open, so we can verify them, and the phone is open so we can verify that the binary on the phone matches the source code we have, right?
What's that, no on all counts?
Yeah, no, I think I'll pass on trusting Apple with anything, especially considering that their privacy policy (still) says that they track your every move - but it's OK, because they don't attach it to your name, just an unique ID that's attached to your phone that's attached to your name.
Funny, how their were no mic issues before, when it was a third party app.
Not to mention that some jail-breakers were able to figure out exactly how Siri was disabled on the iPhone 4 and re-enable it and - surprise surprise, Siri works just fine on the 3GS and 4.
Well, why else would Firefox start increasing the version number every three months other than to increase innovation? Clearly bumping the version number is very important, otherwise we'd still be using Firefox 5 now instead of Firefox 23!
Of course, the "S" versions of phones generally mean "minor spec improvements, no new features" with Apple, so since we already know what iOS 7 is bringing, this means the new iPhone will have nothing interesting.
That sounds overcomplicated. Clearly the correct solution is to fix the camera by adding yellow dots to the eBooks so that the camera will know not to take pictures of them.
It doesn't have a physical button for page turning, but tapping the edge of the screen will flip the page; you don't have to gesture for it.
The Nook Simple Touch does have those buttons.
If you ask me (which I guess the OP did), the Nook Simple Touch is a great little device, but the Nook Tablets are worthless. Since you can get the Nook App on just about any tablet (including Windows 8 tablets) you might as well get a tablet you actually want and then just install that, if you really want to use Nook ebooks on a tablet. There's no compelling reason to get a Nook Tablet.
The Nook Simple Touch, on the other hand, is a nice, small device that's rugged enough for me to throw in my pocket and carry around all day, if I wanted to. The display is OK. It's an e-ink display, so it works well in bright lights, and if you get the one that has the glow feature, it works in low light too. I don't like any of the fonts that the Simple Touch offers, though.
All that being said - I expect everything applies to the Kindle as well, so - no, there's really no compelling reason to choose the Nook. There's a very good reason to get a Kindle instead: Amazon has a much better selection. (Yeah, I kind of regret my Nook purchase, but not enough to replace it with a Kindle.)
You don't get it. In the US sales tax isn't included in the advertised price. VAT is included in the advertised price.
Actually, that's entirely my point: even taking that into account, Europe still pays more. Adding in US sales tax (which, at its worse, caps out at 15%) and subtracting VAT still leaves the European version more expensive.
A much more reasonable guess at US sales tax is around 8%, meaning the "real" US prices is around $431. Given the exchange rate the OP used, the US price is then 321 Euros - notably less than the EU price of 399 Euros. Go the other way and take out VAT and I get a price of $446. Which is, again, notably more expensive.
Saying "it's before-tax in the US and after-tax in the EU" doesn't explain the price difference.
When will the games that make it worth owning launch?
As far as I know, the majority of the PS4 launch titles are ports of games from other platforms. The only one I'm even remotely interested in is Watchdogs, but there's no chance I'd try and play that on consoles. (Or buy it without first finding out what horrible DRM scheme Ubisoft is going to inflict on it.)
I've still yet to hear of a game for the PS4 that makes the console worth buying.
And even if there were, I'd still want to wait a couple of years to find out what horrible launch problem the PS4 will be saddled with and what features Sony is going to rip out after launch.
There are quite a few US states that have no sales tax at all, so that explanation doesn't quite work. If I wanted the PS4, I can swing past a store in New Hampshire and pick it up for exactly its $399 price tag, no additional taxes.
Granted some of the more, uh, government-happy states will inflate that price somewhat.
But even then, according to Wikipedia, the highest US sales tax is 15.5%, and Europe is looking at a 35% increase in price, so that explanation doesn't quite work. (Guess which state has a 15.5% sales tax? Hint: it's a blue one!)
The real answer is that people will pay the higher price in Europe, so that's what it'll sell for. If people refused to buy it at the inflated price, Sony would be forced to be more reasonable.
I believe you mean "and was factually incorrect over a decade ago, before the most recent round of tax hikes including this new tax, and before the disastrous Romneycare went into effect."
That chart is from data from over a decade ago. Things have changed slightly since then, and taxes have gone back up to cover new costs for things like burying a highway under Boston and messing with the existing healthcare system.
But lawdy lawdy, don't dare raise their taxes to try to FIX some of this stuff. From the outside looking in, all this complaining just seems so... what are the words? Stupid and shortsighted.
I find it funny that you think this tax has anything to do with fixing anything. There was a plan on the table to actually fix Massachusetts' bridges and try and improve our public transportation system to be actually - what's the word here, "useful?" It included simplifying the tax code and actually reducing the sales tax.
That plan was shot down.
Instead we're increasing taxes and not fixing infrastructure.
I'm not entirely clear on what the increased revenue is expected to cover, but as I recall it's basically intended to cover the existing budget deficit. You know, the budget that already didn't fix infrastructure or bother to properly maintain it.
This is not people and businesses fleeing by the millions.
Maybe not by the millions, but there's a pretty serious "brain drain" problem in Massachusetts, at least.
Basically what happens is that companies will start in Massachusetts because of the colleges that exist in the state, and then soon realize that it's way too fucking expensive to operate here, and then flee. Constantly.
There have been efforts to deal with this issue, but apparently we'd rather tax "prewritten software consulting" than try and actually resolve anything.
Yeah, I don't think I've heard of anyone who actually lives in Massachusetts complaining about it.
You clearly aren't on my Facebook friends list, because people who actually live in Massachusetts (especially those of us who work in the software industry) are absolutely livid about the tax increases. Regular Massachusetts residents are mostly upset about the latest gas tax hikes that will simply increase their cost of living, but yes, this software tax has made the list of things people complain about.
Yes, people who live in Massachusetts are pissed about the pointless tax hike. Maybe not enough to actually make a difference, but if you leave the Boston reality-obliviousness-field, you will find people mad about the tax hikes.
Why would Apple want to lower the already modest barriers to entry, to allow bunch of casual tinkerers to flood the store (or worse still the internet) with crap and malware?
Are you new here? This is a website full of "casual tinkerers" for whom the ability to screw around with their phone is, well, rather important.
And lowering the "modest barriers to entry" would also allow people to run apps that Apple currently forbids, such as Firefox or emulators or VLC - all currently forbidden by Apple. So, sure, Apple might not see the profit in it, but I guarantee their users would benefit from it.
For example, why would they want to encourage people who don't realise that a native app *IS* significantly better then a "webapp with modern CSS".
Not if you knew the app in question, which I can't really get into, because it was never released as it was basically only used internally. It was effectively a web page, but done using UIKit instead of HTML and CSS.
There are plenty of instances where doing a crossplatform HTML/CSS app make far more sense than creating native apps for multiple platforms. This was one of them.
Oh, and you can totally develop apps for free without paying $100/yr subscription. idk who told you you couldn't. Open up XCode & begin.
OK, where do I download XCode for Linux?
And, even ignoring the massive cost of an Apple computer, no, you can't. You can't actually use the apps you create without the $100/year subscription fee. You can write them, sure, you just can't run them without that fee. Or give them out, or really do much of anything with them.
Believe it or not, I've actually done some iOS development thanks to people thinking "iOS app" sounds better than "webapp with modern CSS."
as someone who carries an iphone 5 and Galaxy S3 daily what is iOS missing that's so awesome on Android?
The ability to install apps from sources that aren't the official app store and the ability to develop apps for free without paying a $100/year subscription?
Plus an open source kernel, so you can verify that all your activity isn't being routed directly to Apple for the NSA. I mean, "advertising purposes."
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Which means, the first REALISTIC date for Exchange eligibility would have been October 2014.
Which is why I'll never understand why the Democrats didn't take the Republicans up on their offer to delay the thing by a year. Everyone had to know it wouldn't be ready. They should have been jumping at the chance to be allowed to wait a year.
But, nope, instead they had to rush in head-first, and now we've got two disasters on our hands.
Well, of course. The Democrats want this shutdown probably more than the Republicans - they're convinced it will be a repeat of 1996, and they'll get the House back in 2014. I'm not entirely sure they're correct, but make no mistake, the Democrats want this shutdown too.
Here's a better question: why doesn't iOS 7 work with iOS 6 compatible apps?
That officially rules Apple out of being "the new Microsoft:" Microsoft has never been dumb enough to break existing apps on their OSes. If there's one thing Microsoft deserves credit for, it's the ridiculous extents they go through to make sure old apps keep working.
Apple is the exact opposite way: if you allow Mac OS X to upgrade your iOS development environment, you will entirely lose the ability to target anything except iOS 7. There is no way to go back, other than to find "pirated" sources of older versions of Xcode. (Xcode is free, so "pirated" isn't quite the right word here, but you know what I mean - sources that don't use the Apple app store.)
Not to mention the thing where the lightning cable apparently has a chip in the cable itself to verify itself with the phone. Turning the "cheap and easily replaceable" bit into "an unnecessary expensive and wasteful thing."
The lightning cable and connector should die, and Apple should be forced to use micro USB just like everyone else.
And it's Apple's fault that this route is open to drivers?
No, but if you read the article, it most certainly is Apple's fault that it's decided that Taxiway Bravo is "the Fairbanks airport."
The maps are correct. They don't treat the runway as a road, and they include the car access roads that run through the airport. The problem is that it declares "the airport" to be a point next to the runway, and then tells drivers how to get there. Once the driver gets there, they find the terminal across the runway and just blindly drive across it.
All Apple has to do is fix this is move the POI that is "Fairbanks Airport" to be the actual terminal and not some point next to the runway.
Of course, as far as I can tell, Apple literally never updates POIs. When iOS 6 came out, I looked through it around my neighborhood, and the POIs were hilariously misplaced. (Things like stores that are literally in the same building being displayed as being blocks apart.) The last time I checked, which, granted, was like a month ago, they were still wrong. And, yes, I submitted a "correction" thing after someone pointed out the gray-link on a gray-background hidden behind a menu for you to "report problems."
The problem is entirely with Apple's data. The maps themselves are good, the search and POIs - you know, the stuff Apple does - are just flat-out broken.
Yes, called realMyst. The graphics are actually better in realMyst than the prerendered Myst graphics were. Myst's graphics were actually pretty bad, we just didn't notice at the time.
Really? Excel is one of your top three selling points to consumers?
One of the (very few) selling points for the new iPhone 5C and 5S is that they now come with Apple's spreadsheet program for free, so - yes, apparently this is a thing people want? And that's not even on tablets, that's on a new phone.
In any case, yes, office apps are a thing people use on tablets. Tablets are getting used in the office these days as they're more portable for certain applications. They're getting used enough that Apple decided to make their office apps free on new devices.
If even Apple thinks people want spreadsheets on their tablets, I think it's safe to say that it's a thing people want, even if it isn't anything I'd ever want.
Remember the Boston Bombing? Those guys were "anonymous" but quickly found out that they weren't really "unknown". Pictures surfaced, faces were identified, and the search was quickly started.
Well... maybe.
What you need to remember is that the only reason the Boston Marathon bombers were caught as quickly as they were was because the bombers decided to kill a police officer and hijack a car. They were not caught because of pictures - they were caught because the guy who they hijacked escaped without his smartphone, which the police were then able to track.
They were only definitively identified when the first bomber was in the morgue.
Because of this, it's impossible to say whether or not they ever would have been identified by the pictures taken at the marathon itself. Had they instead just gone into hiding without killing a police officer and without hijacking a car - who knows how long it would have taken to identify them, let alone catch them?
But instead they chose the cheapest possible route and pretend that putting the USB logo on one side of the connector somehow makes obvious (it doesn't) which way to plug it in.
And that's apparently not even a requirement, because I have a WD USB drive that helpfully puts the WD logo on the side you're supposed to have up and the USB logo on the side which is down - exactly the opposite of the "standard" way USB cables are "supposed" to work.
You are so right. Oh btw, where can I get a full source code for the very specific software on my Galaxy S3? Can I download it from Samsung? How about the hardware design?
Does the S3 contain a scanner that scans personal biometric data in such a place that you can't possibly avoid touching it?
You're absolutely right that there's a limit to the amount of trust you can have in a device. There's simply no way to verify everything.
Fortunately, with most phones, you don't have to worry about something as sensitive as your fingerprints being scanned, so the level of paranoia about the device can be toned down a bit. You can know not to talk about certain things on your cell phone and avoid putting sensitive data on it.
Not so with the iPhone 5S. You'd have to be seriously insane to touch one of those. Literally, in the case of its home button!
The fingerprint is saved locally and encrypted on the individual phone's A7 chip. Never goes to iCloud. Never touches Apple servers.
Ah, so we've looked through the source code and hardware design to verify that's the case? I mean, the source code and hardware are open, so we can verify them, and the phone is open so we can verify that the binary on the phone matches the source code we have, right?
What's that, no on all counts?
Yeah, no, I think I'll pass on trusting Apple with anything, especially considering that their privacy policy (still) says that they track your every move - but it's OK, because they don't attach it to your name, just an unique ID that's attached to your phone that's attached to your name.
Funny, how their were no mic issues before, when it was a third party app.
Not to mention that some jail-breakers were able to figure out exactly how Siri was disabled on the iPhone 4 and re-enable it and - surprise surprise, Siri works just fine on the 3GS and 4.
Not sure why Innovation is tied to model numbers?
Well, why else would Firefox start increasing the version number every three months other than to increase innovation? Clearly bumping the version number is very important, otherwise we'd still be using Firefox 5 now instead of Firefox 23!
Of course, the "S" versions of phones generally mean "minor spec improvements, no new features" with Apple, so since we already know what iOS 7 is bringing, this means the new iPhone will have nothing interesting.
That sounds overcomplicated. Clearly the correct solution is to fix the camera by adding yellow dots to the eBooks so that the camera will know not to take pictures of them.
It doesn't have a physical button for page turning, but tapping the edge of the screen will flip the page; you don't have to gesture for it.
The Nook Simple Touch does have those buttons.
If you ask me (which I guess the OP did), the Nook Simple Touch is a great little device, but the Nook Tablets are worthless. Since you can get the Nook App on just about any tablet (including Windows 8 tablets) you might as well get a tablet you actually want and then just install that, if you really want to use Nook ebooks on a tablet. There's no compelling reason to get a Nook Tablet.
The Nook Simple Touch, on the other hand, is a nice, small device that's rugged enough for me to throw in my pocket and carry around all day, if I wanted to. The display is OK. It's an e-ink display, so it works well in bright lights, and if you get the one that has the glow feature, it works in low light too. I don't like any of the fonts that the Simple Touch offers, though.
All that being said - I expect everything applies to the Kindle as well, so - no, there's really no compelling reason to choose the Nook. There's a very good reason to get a Kindle instead: Amazon has a much better selection. (Yeah, I kind of regret my Nook purchase, but not enough to replace it with a Kindle.)
You don't get it. In the US sales tax isn't included in the advertised price. VAT is included in the advertised price.
Actually, that's entirely my point: even taking that into account, Europe still pays more. Adding in US sales tax (which, at its worse, caps out at 15%) and subtracting VAT still leaves the European version more expensive.
A much more reasonable guess at US sales tax is around 8%, meaning the "real" US prices is around $431. Given the exchange rate the OP used, the US price is then 321 Euros - notably less than the EU price of 399 Euros. Go the other way and take out VAT and I get a price of $446. Which is, again, notably more expensive.
Saying "it's before-tax in the US and after-tax in the EU" doesn't explain the price difference.
OK, so the PS4 will launch on November 15th.
When will the games that make it worth owning launch?
As far as I know, the majority of the PS4 launch titles are ports of games from other platforms. The only one I'm even remotely interested in is Watchdogs, but there's no chance I'd try and play that on consoles. (Or buy it without first finding out what horrible DRM scheme Ubisoft is going to inflict on it.)
I've still yet to hear of a game for the PS4 that makes the console worth buying.
And even if there were, I'd still want to wait a couple of years to find out what horrible launch problem the PS4 will be saddled with and what features Sony is going to rip out after launch.
There are quite a few US states that have no sales tax at all, so that explanation doesn't quite work. If I wanted the PS4, I can swing past a store in New Hampshire and pick it up for exactly its $399 price tag, no additional taxes.
Granted some of the more, uh, government-happy states will inflate that price somewhat.
But even then, according to Wikipedia, the highest US sales tax is 15.5%, and Europe is looking at a 35% increase in price, so that explanation doesn't quite work. (Guess which state has a 15.5% sales tax? Hint: it's a blue one!)
The real answer is that people will pay the higher price in Europe, so that's what it'll sell for. If people refused to buy it at the inflated price, Sony would be forced to be more reasonable.
Actually, it makes a nice portmanteau, but it is now factually incorrect.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/total_taxes/
I believe you mean "and was factually incorrect over a decade ago, before the most recent round of tax hikes including this new tax, and before the disastrous Romneycare went into effect."
That chart is from data from over a decade ago. Things have changed slightly since then, and taxes have gone back up to cover new costs for things like burying a highway under Boston and messing with the existing healthcare system.
But lawdy lawdy, don't dare raise their taxes to try to FIX some of this stuff. From the outside looking in, all this complaining just seems so... what are the words? Stupid and shortsighted.
I find it funny that you think this tax has anything to do with fixing anything. There was a plan on the table to actually fix Massachusetts' bridges and try and improve our public transportation system to be actually - what's the word here, "useful?" It included simplifying the tax code and actually reducing the sales tax.
That plan was shot down.
Instead we're increasing taxes and not fixing infrastructure.
I'm not entirely clear on what the increased revenue is expected to cover, but as I recall it's basically intended to cover the existing budget deficit. You know, the budget that already didn't fix infrastructure or bother to properly maintain it.
This is not people and businesses fleeing by the millions.
Maybe not by the millions, but there's a pretty serious "brain drain" problem in Massachusetts, at least.
Basically what happens is that companies will start in Massachusetts because of the colleges that exist in the state, and then soon realize that it's way too fucking expensive to operate here, and then flee. Constantly.
There have been efforts to deal with this issue, but apparently we'd rather tax "prewritten software consulting" than try and actually resolve anything.
Yeah, I don't think I've heard of anyone who actually lives in Massachusetts complaining about it.
You clearly aren't on my Facebook friends list, because people who actually live in Massachusetts (especially those of us who work in the software industry) are absolutely livid about the tax increases. Regular Massachusetts residents are mostly upset about the latest gas tax hikes that will simply increase their cost of living, but yes, this software tax has made the list of things people complain about.
Yes, people who live in Massachusetts are pissed about the pointless tax hike. Maybe not enough to actually make a difference, but if you leave the Boston reality-obliviousness-field, you will find people mad about the tax hikes.
Why would Apple want to lower the already modest barriers to entry, to allow bunch of casual tinkerers to flood the store (or worse still the internet) with crap and malware?
Are you new here? This is a website full of "casual tinkerers" for whom the ability to screw around with their phone is, well, rather important.
And lowering the "modest barriers to entry" would also allow people to run apps that Apple currently forbids, such as Firefox or emulators or VLC - all currently forbidden by Apple. So, sure, Apple might not see the profit in it, but I guarantee their users would benefit from it.
For example, why would they want to encourage people who don't realise that a native app *IS* significantly better then a "webapp with modern CSS".
Not if you knew the app in question, which I can't really get into, because it was never released as it was basically only used internally. It was effectively a web page, but done using UIKit instead of HTML and CSS.
There are plenty of instances where doing a crossplatform HTML/CSS app make far more sense than creating native apps for multiple platforms. This was one of them.
Oh, and you can totally develop apps for free without paying $100/yr subscription. idk who told you you couldn't. Open up XCode & begin.
OK, where do I download XCode for Linux?
And, even ignoring the massive cost of an Apple computer, no, you can't. You can't actually use the apps you create without the $100/year subscription fee. You can write them, sure, you just can't run them without that fee. Or give them out, or really do much of anything with them.
Believe it or not, I've actually done some iOS development thanks to people thinking "iOS app" sounds better than "webapp with modern CSS."
as someone who carries an iphone 5 and Galaxy S3 daily what is iOS missing that's so awesome on Android?
The ability to install apps from sources that aren't the official app store and the ability to develop apps for free without paying a $100/year subscription?
Plus an open source kernel, so you can verify that all your activity isn't being routed directly to Apple for the NSA. I mean, "advertising purposes."