> Sure, but a decent share of Apple's success was due to making OS X a very nice development platform. This attracted developers who created great desktop and m

> Sure, but a decent share of Apple's success was due to making OS X a very nice development platform. This attracted developers who created great desktop and mobile software Apple's customers are the >1 billion user install base it has for iOS and more broadly the Apple ecosystem. Developers will develop great desktop and mobile software because that's the way to reach the incredibly valuable install base where consumer spend is 2x+ that of competing platforms. You don't win developers purely by giving them nice developer features. You win them by giving them something worth developing for. Part of that is a nice developer ecosystem, but that not enough on its own.