What are you talking about? You can write whatever you want for your device. You just can't sell whatever you want in Apple's store, but that is something completely different that using whatever API you want.
Edit: 1. I don't think you know what a script-kiddie is, 2. Your replies make no sense to the context of any msgs you are replying to.
Do you write your own kernel patches? Who wrote your userland?
Software is about communities and if you don't know this, you haven't been paying attention for the last 30 years.
Software is about standing on the shoulders of the people who came before you. If every developer has to write their own stack, and every developer has to pay $99 for the right to do so, we'd still be in the 70s.
How the hell do people honestly think that this is a valid excuse?
Do you think that econgeeker intends "script kiddie" to mean "teenage who downloads what they believe to be hacking software like back orifice or aol punters to their windows machine"?
What am I missing about the meaning of the word? The classic definition doesn't make any sense in the context of those posts.
Edit: 1. I don't think you know what a script-kiddie is, 2. Your replies make no sense to the context of any msgs you are replying to.