Oh please. Stop claiming every pet issue you have is shared by every developer and that it's "already too late."
I don't say it is already too late, I say it might be. That may be overly dramatic but, unless you refute that there is a problem with an actual argument, you are hardly arguing against that.
The HN echo chamber is strong, but its silly anecdotes don't reflect reality.
What I don't think they did is sell many to developers or programmers. Although small in number compared to the overall size of the market, Apple's losses there are important. Mindshare matters when you're talking about the people you expect to build the software for the platform you sell.