Maybe because you already have a Mac? If you had to buy a NeXT workstation to develop for it, that might feel a bit different then though, right? It's only a

Maybe because you already have a Mac? If you had to buy a NeXT workstation to develop for it, that might feel a bit different then though, right? It's only a slightly different proposition. Sure, a lot of people already have Macs, but it's not really that hard to make the software work on other operating systems. Apple just doesn't care to to make it cross platform, and also makes more money and solidifies their market by requiring Macs.