The Flash comment is one of the main points that the iOS devices still fail to provide. What's wrong with pointing out a flaw? That's like saying you can look at a car, but will be shot if you say anything bad about it. This is a forum, things are open for discussion. Regardless of whether remarks are sarcastic or not, my remark about the Flash support was not aimed at any particular person, it only existed as a conversation starter, about the flaws in the device.
I honestly don't know why Thraxas still holds a bitterness over petty insults. I've already apologized, both by email and publicly (numerous times). And no, I'm not apologizing just because he was made moderator, I even congratulated him when he received the promotion, but I guess that was one of the things he overlooked to move on to the bitterness. The feud has caused multiple topics to get locked, and if you can see, most of them start with him making some kind of remark about me. My posts are straightforward, and have no underlying tones behind them (for the most part), look back in my last year of posting history. VERY few times, if at all, have I made remarks about him in a negative way. If you're going to honestly hold grudges, simply don't respond to my posts. Moderators are certainly allowed to have opinions, and one can disagree with them, but there is no need for insulting people or being rude to them.
As for your points, I agree. But, as for quality control, I can't fully agree. I've had multiple occasions where apps that have been published have crashed. Not to mention, Apple doesn't put a stop to these "prank" apps like hand warmers and fingerprint scanners. Sure, some people like them, but if you're really looking at the comments, many people honestly believe these apps can do things like this. Apple makes a percentage on every copy of an app sold for a "App Store" fee, which basically means that since they host it they get a piece of the pie. This is reasonable, had them not have to pay the initial $200 to get XCode and iOS SDK. And if I've learned anything in my life, it'd be that generally exclusivity of a product does not help maintain quality control. Look at Microsoft. Much of their software is very buggy when it comes out, but look at open source projects, many of them are built on solid ground, and bad things are either removed or fixed.
I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
