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> no-additional-cost professional-grade IDE since 2003 You paid for that by spending $XXX more than a PC on your Mac. (posted from a mac but I make no delusion

> no-additional-cost professional-grade IDE since 2003 You paid for that by spending $XXX more than a PC on your Mac. (posted from a mac but I make no delusion that I didn't pay for XCode)

xuki 11y ago
Every Apple user paid for that, so you're getting subsidized heavily by iPhone/iPad users.
jjoonathan 11y ago
That's exactly why I used the awkward phrase "no additional cost" rather than "free." Even if I hadn't chosen my words carefully, "delusion" would be a strong word for attacking something that I didn't explicitly claim.
- spronkey 11y ago
  MS has had express editions of their IDEs available for quite some time....
  - vetinari 11y ago
    Express edition used to have crippled (non-optimizing) compilers. The original free command line tools for VS2003, that got cancelled with first Express edition, and all Apple compilers were uncrippled.