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OP should have said "many app developers". The implications are a bit different because it doesn't mean 'all' or 'the majority'. Lots of people will stick with

by treve 10y ago

OP should have said "many app developers". The implications are a bit different because it doesn't mean 'all' or 'the majority'. Lots of people will stick with Apple hardware or the mac operating system I'm sure, but I do agree that I think a lot of people will cross over once some of these barriers are removed.

Philipp__ 10y ago
And it is okay! Different devices, different systems for different people. But what I really do not get is the amount of rage that is produced in the community, if you do not like certain device simply do not buy it, and do not bash people that do, because if there are reasons for you not to like it that doesn't mean it's same case for everyone else. Anyway back to the story, I think that number of people that use Macs only for iOS dev is existent but not really that big. Except platform specific development (like .NET/Windows, or iOS/macOS for that matter), most of development is pretty platform agnostic (where you draw the line here is UNIX-like vs Windows OS). App developers will have to stick to Macs, unless Apple go totally insane and release dev tools for iOS on Linux (which won't happen in my opinion, because of the anatomy of both macOS and Linux). So OPs comment doesn't make sense from the beginning (both technically and economically for Apple).