The problem is that OS X is the generative platform If your "only iOS matters" hypothesis is correct than Apple only cares about generative OSX for generating

The problem is that OS X is the generative platform If your "only iOS matters" hypothesis is correct than Apple only cares about generative OSX for generating iOS apps. That means keeping XCode working at all costs, and they can safely ignore every other use. I suspect that they understand that apart from students using Pages to write papers, MS and Google own the office productivity space. The only remaining code to write are highly proprietary front-ends and the occasional mega-backend.