I think you beat up your own strawman. True, development on the device is harder because of the form factor, but what truly makes it harder is devices are more

I think you beat up your own strawman. True, development on the device is harder because of the form factor, but what truly makes it harder is devices are more complex, so everything else is more complex. It means more complicated API, frameworks, IDEs, etc. To the original question, table stakes are an order of magnitude greater than when 80's computers booted to a Basic prompt.