I tried doing iOS dev years ago. Apple had me fax them my driver's license. You can whine about the FSF all you want but I've never had to do that to use gcc.
This comment is very insightful and the comparison is sound.
This is just one anecdotal experience out of hundreds of thousands. Because of your one bad experience you just dismiss Apple?
I can also provide 1 anecdotal piece of evidence:
I've done iOS dev and published apps in the App Store. Never had to fax my drivers license to Apple.
I'm not alone. Also requiring state-ID in order to share software should be disturbing enough to abandon platforms.
This has meme potential! Talking about some major corp and hoops one has to jump through to do X, react with "say about the FSF what you will, but..." ; Made my day. What are you even talking about? How is this a meaningful comparison?
It is meaningful, inasmuch as it shows the stark difference between developing for an extremely free ecosystem (in this case, free software using GNU tools) and an extremely closed one, like Apple's, where (apparently, as I didn't know about this, but it is realistic) you have to mail them your driving license. Free software protects you forever exactly from something like this and the FSF has been speaking about this possibility for decades.