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Using Apple products is a pleasant experience. Using jQuery is to avoid learning how to code while purporting that it makes things easier cross browser. Of course, if that were the real reason, we would also have cQuery and c++Query and so on but, instead, we just learn how to code.
In your c and c++ analogies, what are the inconsistent DOM API implementations?
Well, to be fair, the APIs aren't very consistent between OSes. But then again, I guess Java is the jQuery of C++. :P