If they shut down services, they slit their own throat and cut off their revenues as well. Apple and Google are not the only players in this game, but Microsof

If they shut down services, they slit their own throat and cut off their revenues as well. Apple and Google are not the only players in this game, but Microsoft as well as others. Rather than shut stuff off, Google or Apple if forced to pay taxes will just lawyer up and appeal it in some way. Yeah developing on OSX/MacOS is better than GNU/Linux, but if you find a good IDE with the programming language you use on GNU/Linux it gets better. Plus GNU/Linux runs on the PC Clones out there as well as ported cross platform for ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, Etc. A reason why I use GNU/Linux is that it is free and respects my rights as a consumer with no DRM, and if I don't like one version of GNU/Linux there are hundreds of others out there. GNU/Linux is not locked to just one brand of computers as MacOS/OSX is, nor does it have DRM and Telemetry in it like Windows 10.