Developers really don't have a lot of leverage in anything we do, as much as we like to think so. Many of us work in such a way that we get summoned every morn

Developers really don't have a lot of leverage in anything we do, as much as we like to think so. Many of us work in such a way that we get summoned every morning at 9 to line up and answer "what did you do yesterday that justified 10% of your paycheck and what will you do today that justifies 10% of your paycheck? Turnover among executives is considered a crisis. Turnover among developers amounts to whining about our disloyalty and companies screaming at the government to increase immigration. We are a commodity. A valuable one and hard to obtain one to be sure, but that is it. Apple understood that and won and developers primarily build for Apple now.