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Comment by chordalkeyboard

3 years ago

> That must be why developing iOS Apps is so unpopular with developers…

Apple products are popular among consumers and developers in spite of their many user-hostile decisions precisely because there are few alternatives, all of which have substantial disadvantages as well.

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scarface74  3 years ago

So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs to make Apple the most valuable company in the world?

Maybe their decisions are only hostile to geeks who want to run Linux on the Apple Pencil.

  • chordalkeyboard  3 years ago

    > So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs

    They aren't all "happy" about it, but as I mentioned in the post you replied to, there is not a decent alternative.

    > Maybe their decisions are only hostile to geeks who want to run Linux on the Apple Pencil.

    Certainly not but one would have to be interested in the fact of the matter to realize it.