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I believe you are mistaken. Apple has certainly courted scientific and other developers before. Here's an article about when they stopped targeting science.

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  "Science" is not "developers". Apple wanted to sell them on a full stack all the way up to clusters of expensive Mac hardware for parallel computing. And the article you link even admits that companies which have targeted scientific users with hardware have mostly failed -- that market is more likely to buy either extremely specialized hardware or, more likely, commodity machines that they slap Linux on.