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At its heart Apple is a hardware company and everything they do is to drive sales of hardware. An iOS developer is forced to have Apple hardware. They could cha
by yardie 8y ago
At its heart Apple is a hardware company and everything they do is to drive sales of hardware. An iOS developer is forced to have Apple hardware. They could charge for MacOS and they could charge for XCode. But they don’t because the cost of continued development of those applications is subsidized by hardware sales.
- egil 8y agoNot to mention that the "it just works" experience is much easier to provide when you control both software and hardware. No driver mess for the end user.