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While Swift might be open source - to effectively do something with it you still need to buy a Macbook or even iPhone, which as we know are expensive. To relea
by ozim 4y ago
While Swift might be open source - to effectively do something with it you still need to buy a Macbook or even iPhone, which as we know are expensive.
To release any application in Apple ecosystem you have to pay for developer account each year. You might play around with stuff - but I don't believe anyone would be developing on their platform just for fun.
Microsoft gives stuff away for free - loads of stuff - there is much more people who will play/try out/start some projects with free stuff. But then the more people the easier is to see ones that are not happy and would like more. Then this mass of people is active on multiple forums, not only on .NET dev subreddits.
- okamiueru 4y agoIf only apple products were just expensive. For certain kinds of people, dev-tools/environment and OS are exceedingly frustrating to work with. I don't get why developers put up with it, well, other than the obvious market access.
- ozim 4y agoI think it mostly boils down to that devs in Apple ecosystem get paid more and they can afford that stuff. Then as they see nice income stream - some inconvenience is written off as cost of doing business. Then it is just not that many of them.