The only limitations are in your mind and perhaps your wallet.

I reply:
Hubris unchecked. Hubris is like undiagnosed cancer–once you have it WILL eventually lead to your demise.

Hey, aren’t we close to the anniversary of the Jim Jones-town tragedy.

Here’s a cool recipe for tragedy…
add equal parts Hubris, narcissism and blind worship to your eco-system. And for an added touch, mix in a little cyanide for that extra punch.

Ha! Punch get it…It’s like Kool-Ai..awww fudge it.

Exactly… unlike thief Shamdung.

However, it’s time to check the hubris. The better technology seldom wins in the long run. The buying public has been brainwashed into buying cheap inferior disposable plastic crap for so long that … well, look at CrapRoid sales for yourself. The unseen enemy to all quality manufacturing companies, including Apple, is Wal-mart.

I would feel the same way if someone wrote an article claiming that android had an advantage because they could run apps on any device with a davlik JIT and android API without a recompile of the app.

Neither one strike me as big selling points and in practice you can’t really tell what is native code vs byte code. Well unless its .net, that thing is a pig

Now, no one can help them, but themselves to become educated about a product or class of products. That’s up to them. So, naturally people will gravitate to the product that is “open” (e.g. without the heavy hand) because the alternative no matter how good seems a little overbearing and an encroachment on their personal freedom somehow.

So, Samsung, HTC and others offer them that choice. But as S. Jobs told Eric Schmidt, “It’s a stolen product…,” which it appears to blatantly be. Now, we have to let the courts decide what if any of that has a basis in legal juris prudence. Good luck with the last one!

In conclusion, bluejay must be a ‘genius’ in comparison.

If a device can accomplish it’s task in a short period of time, it will spend the remaining time, ie waiting for a key press or a tap, in a low power idle state. Hence, battery life is extended. If you have layers of interpreters (ie Java) that take more time to crunch code to get the task done, the bigger the battery needs to be. Hence, heavier, thicker, Android device. Hence, the Apple long term advantage.

This is not zero impact. This is big impact on a buying decision.

There are pros and cons to both approaches from a development standpoint.

But don’t let that get in the way of a good Samsung Hate-fest.

The point is that Apple focuses on devices for people. They aren’t trying to manufacture washing machines, too. That focus results in the best products for people. That’s why the washing machine makers copy Apple when they want to dabble in smartphones, tablets, and computers in between building backhoes.

Wall Street loves market share above all else and Apple doesn’t have enough. Apple’s products are continually seen to be “too expensive” and Wall Street likes cheap. Android is as cheap as it gets. I’ve never cared much cheap or inferior quality products, but that’s just me.

And there is still the theory of “open” always wins the race of large numbers, so iOS has a few things going against it for being successful in terms of market share. Everything points out to Wall Street denigrating iOS to third place in the mobile industry.