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Apple should realize that most of its cash cow (iPhone) is due to Mac and developers are key to long term success.

"most of its cash cow (iPhone) is due to Mac"

Almost certainly untrue. Most iphone users are still Windows PC users. Yes the developer community is important to the iOS app lead, but most of that is due to the self selecting group of people who purchase iphones - people willing to pay for things.

It's more indirect than that: the apps exist because of Mac using developers. Without the developers having access to Xcode/Swift/etc the quality and number of apps would decline in favor of android.

How are they due to Mac? They outsell macs by an order of magnitude and most of the non developers I know with iPhones dont have macs.

If the implication is that developers will stop writing apps for iPhones, that's highly unlikely because money is still in vogue.

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