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Driving the Mac off a cliff would alienate developers and have serious repercussions on the iOS ecosystem as well. For iOS Developers, I am not so sure. If Ap
by protomyth 6y ago
Driving the Mac off a cliff would alienate developers and have serious repercussions on the iOS ecosystem as well.
For iOS Developers, I am not so sure. If Apple came out with Xcode for Windows at WWDC, I'm pretty sure a lot of iOS developers would be overjoyed. Now, a build farm is much easier among other advantages.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoAnother possibility: Xcode for iPadOS.
- claudeganon 6y agoApple is terrible at making XCode good, useable software on their own platform. I can't imagine what a nightmare it would be on Windows.
- toyg 6y agoXcode for Windows would quickly end up like all software Apple makes for Windows: buggy, slow, lagging, and unloved. Not that it is much better as it is on Mac...
- protomyth 6y agoI think a large part of their crappy Windows software was there need to make it look like the Macintosh version. I get the feeling if they are putting Xcode on Windows, they will not feel the need to make it anything but a Windows app. I would also imagine they would remove anything having to do with the Macintosh except perhaps the Catalyst compiles which should decrease some of the neglect problems causing bugs.