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A comment on Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic. Parent comment

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by majewsky on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:23AM (#25149197)
> they publish the whole development toolsuite needed for free without obligation

The hardware is not published for free. The minimum entry fee into, say, iOS development is 100$ plus the cost of a Mac Mini.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by Twisell on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:05AM (#25150833)
Blimey apple is so hard onto us poor honest developers. Why don't they give a Mac to every human being so we all got equal opportunities to code?

(That would actually be a great thing to do, but 2020 reminded me hardly that we don't live in a fairytale)

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by majewsky on Saturday November 21, 2020 @12:27PM (#25171069)
That's not my point. The point is there is no technical reason for requiring a Mac for, say, iOS development. I get that they don't want to straight-up port XCode to Windows or Linux, but nowadays you could run it as a cloud service. The price of admission for something like that would certainly be less than keeping up with Mac hardware. They don't do it because it runs counter to their business model.
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