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They certainly care about Mac developers and iOS developers.

• protomyth 7y ago
  Looking at the state of documentation and their general lack of responsiveness, I really don't understand where the idea they care is coming from.
• onion2k 7y ago
  Do they? The App store is so full of automatically generated cookie-cutter apps with minor cosmetic differences that no one can really make a successful app any more. It's a lottery of who gets an Editor's Pick. That's not developer friendly.
  • Veen 7y ago
    Really? My iOS devices are full of high-quality applications that I bought on the App Store: Omnifocus, Omnioutliner, IA Writer, Pixelmator, Bear, Devonthink, Carrot Weather, Overcast, and dozens more.
    • onion2k 7y ago
      I'm not suggesting there aren't great apps out there - I'm saying they're effectively impossible to find, and new app developers pretty much can't break in any more. There are 100 terrible apps for every good one, and you'll never find some of the best apps out there using the app store because of that noise. Finding new apps is driven by word of mouth, curation, etc. Apple themselves add practically nothing to the ecosystem, and certainly not enough to justify their 30% cut. The list you added to your post is a good example of this - all those apps are examples of things that had a community outside of the app store before they had iOS versions. They're not good or successful because of Apple, but in spite of Apple.