You seem easily driven to despair. Marvin is locked in a proprietary O/S with just API access that Apple jealously guards. The example of that is the old sneak-around plugin that was disabled by an o/s upgrade. Apple has advantages such as security but that weakens other opportunities for programming. Coming up with back-doors get harder and harder.
I am reminded of the Microsoft story of the reporter who got on the staff bus by mistake where they chanted, "The jobs not done while Word Perfect runs." While Apple may be more altruistic about it, the results are the same.
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