Isn't this a very old story, repeated a thousand times before? How many people made excellent programs for Windows only to see Microsoft stealing or destroying

Isn't this a very old story, repeated a thousand times before? How many people made excellent programs for Windows only to see Microsoft stealing or destroying it by changing APIs or exploring undocumented features of Windows? Ask Borland, Computer Associates, Lotus, PKWare and so many others. How many times has Apple already done the same, both on the Mac and iPhone? And before them both there was IBM. When you develop for controlled platforms and walled gardens you're not creating a business for the long run. What you're doing is free market research for the owners of the garden. Yes, there are exceptions (Intuit, Adobe, Autodesk). But they're exceptions, not the rule.