Steve Jobs originally wanted to strip out the shell entirely and only support POSIX at the level of the C API. To this day, Apple acts like they've been strong-armed into providing support for the Unix utilities.
I can understand the attitude that 99% of their userbase will never touch the command line, but that last 1% represents the developers that keep the whole ecosystem going.
I can understand the attitude that 99% of their userbase will never touch the command line, but that last 1% represents the developers that keep the whole ecosystem going.