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> I don't think Apple really cares that much if developers decide not to sign up The will be forced to. The mac is the only exclusive developer platform for th

> I don't think Apple really cares that much if developers decide not to sign up The will be forced to. The mac is the only exclusive developer platform for the money making iDevice lineup. Just as Microsoft found the hard way towards the end of the Ballmer era, if your only developer platform is a burning platform the developers hate with a passion, you are going to have a hard time.

ReptileMan 6y ago
They actually had a winner with windows phone in 2010 . If they had put out unlocked device on which recompiled windows apps to run, with easy updates and hals, bypassed carries about updates, they would have pushed android out and taken a nice chunk out of apple share. The main android problem is the hal and the updates - and google for various reasons hadn't tackled this problem properly. For a decade.