Yes, but it's very amusing to those of us who love Asimov, and also newly relevant with the Watson/Jeopardy thing happening.

Yep it's all rather obvious. Of course no company wants a developer to harm them or their platform (1st rule). 2nd rule - you wanna develop for Apple, you gotta play by their rules. 3rd rule - nothing really.

>2nd rule - you wanna develop for Apple, you gotta play by their rules.

How did this come to life? I don't wanna develop for Apple, i wanna develop for persons who own specific material artefacts to allow the persons to modify or extend the functionality or appearance or any other aspect of those artefacts.

So basically no story can be criticized for lack of content, as soon as n people have upvoted it?

I wonder if 'voting' on a story will be tied to something other than 'has an account' in a future iteration of this social up/down news model.

It's been my experience that a comment section often contains far better critical/ordered information than is represented by the sum total of upvotes a link roll receives.