I was the person that actually managed the binary size task force and proved that it was a business problem in the first place. Not all management didn’t care about AMS :)
The Amsterdam team 100% played a critical role in solving the issue (at least until apple bumped the limit). No way we would have stayed under it without you all.
If you have a Netgear WNDR3700v2 or a WNDR3800, check out Cerowrt [1]. The latest stable build, 3.7.5-2, has been exceptionally stable for me, and fast. I would highly recommend it.
How does this prove it is a bubble? If anything, isn't this evidence for the opposite? I expected the price to drop dramatically after the Silk Road shutdown.
This definitely is a problem in Obj-C. Using GCD and callbacks is usually easier to understand than delegates and manual thread management, but it's still not great. I would love to see something like async/await in Obj-C. There are some great ideas on how to get something similar in this blogpost, but none that I would use in production code unfortunately:
http://overooped.com/post/41803252527/methods-of-concurrency
I like Sorcery. https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery
It calls itself magical, but it is very easy to wrap your head around and override default behaviors if needed.