Judging by that thread in the Apple forums, people are for some reason unable to change the default port their development environment uses, so they blame Apple

Judging by that thread in the Apple forums, people are for some reason unable to change the default port their development environment uses, so they blame Apple for using a port they have been using for a long time. Not sure why they are unable to change them, but the typical Apple user isn't directly famous for their willingness to configure their own software (either changing the ports of their development environment, or configure their OS to stop using that port), so I guess it's fairly common to end up with scenarios like this.