What bothers me is how they're charging developers to build for their system and semi-require server verification for programs to run. In the earlier Mac OS X

What bothers me is how they're charging developers to build for their system and semi-require server verification for programs to run. In the earlier Mac OS X era they used to be very open (and free) with their tools and actively encouraging. It feels very backwards now. For example, Microsoft was really restrictive with its expensive tools at that time and gradually opened them up. It's like the two companies reversed positions. As a kid, I could never afford to buy pro dev tools, and while it's not as expensive currently, I think that's the way Apple is headed. It's not going to help more people get into programming.