> they're asking Apple to spend all the engineering time developing APIs, xCode, etc. for free I find such arguments more than absurd, 1. They have no issue d

> they're asking Apple to spend all the engineering time developing APIs, xCode, etc. for free I find such arguments more than absurd, 1. They have no issue doing that on macOS 2. Apple needs third party developers as much as the other way around. They are not doing this for free, they would sell a lot less devices if third party Apps weren't supported.