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This is pretty disgusting. Perhaps the most upsetting thing to come out of Apple in some time. We're starting to see the writing on the wall. First Apple charges a hefty penny for their hardware, and we swallow that because we want quality and understand that our investments last a long time. Now they are turning back on us in this area. I am no longer compatible with their mentality as a developer. Apple was a developer-centric company because they understood that making developers happy first was the most effective way to get high quality software.

There is still no option that is as good as macOS. That's just a fact, but at least Microsoft is trying. They look like a lumbering blind giant bumbling around and falling down on their face again and again (especially with the Windows 10 stability issues and their abysmal UI choices), but they are trying. Apple is basically not growing in this regard and is masking it's efforts as preparing for the future. Well Apple, it's definitely not for OUR future - but rather for YOUR future.

MS could snatch away a huge and important group if they'd just emulate the user experience and interface we're used to on macOS and simultaneously bring Linux under its umbrella via a reworked macOS-like user experience. Jobs knew how to do this and he did it with NeXT.

Apple has lost its way.