Without the mac there is no iPhone.
Before disagreeing, ask yourself what every single piece of iPhone software was written on.
Someone has to make the software and you ignore developers at your peril.
Before disagreeing, ask yourself what every single piece of iPhone software was written on.
Someone has to make the software and you ignore developers at your peril.
So it doesn't matter that Apple ignores them.
As people leave the platform, the amount of revenue it makes the company diminishes.
As the revenue earned from Macs diminishes, its importance to the company diminishes and they put less resources towards it.
As its importance to the company diminishes and it gets less resources, the quality diminishes.
As the quality diminishes, they lose other developers also.
It's a slow decline that will take maybe 5-10 years.
Having to have an overpriced piece of hardware in the loop in order to run software to compile other software for a third piece of hardware is, to use the German, verrückt.