A Small Inconvenience of Being an iOS Developer

While I'm definitely sympathetic to the author's point, there's another side of the coin.

It's frustrating for developers (or other support personnel) to have to support the proverbial guy who's still running Windows 3.1 with 8 megs of RAM, with a motherboard where you're still setting IRQs with physical jumpers.

I had to do that many years ago in another life. It sucked. Bad. We finally persuaded management to adopt some minimum hardware requirements (not necessarily bleeding edge, but at least something from the current decade). Life got a lot easier for us.

Yes, you have to have reasonably new Apple hardware, but no, you don't have to support 5,000 different hardware configurations and 15 OS versions.

If the author also develops for Android, he probably knows what that's like. Be careful what you wish for. :-)