Although a part of me thinks all this FUD, I can't help be concerned about this situation. Here is one more possibility - what if the dev tools now require you

Although a part of me thinks all this FUD, I can't help be concerned about this situation. Here is one more possibility - what if the dev tools now require you to pay an annual fee to even download them? gcc is GPL, so they can at best make it difficult to get them free, but clang is racing ahead and it is BSD. I just hope that my faith in Apple that they won't do something ugly like giving free dev tools when they needed developers and switch to charging for them when they got the app market they wanted. I think there is now room in the market for a company with good design sense to make Ubuntu machines!