[logicOnly]

If Apple isn't getting their developer license and hardware brought, they will find a way to make it impossible.

Apple needs to force developers to use their hardware or it won't have a native/refined feeling and developers will stick to Windows/Linux without the extra step of Apple.

[grawprog]

>Apple needs to force developers to use their hardware or it won't have a native/refined feeling

Or Apple stops making as much money in hardware sales and might actually have to lower their prices?

>developers will stick to Windows/Linux without the extra step of Apple.

Doesn't that mean Apple is already superfluous and only exists because of arbitrary restrictions created by Apple making the entire ecosystem artifical?

[delfinom]

>Or Apple stops making as much money in hardware sales and might actually have to lower their prices?

That already was a threat, in 2018 they removed their total unit sales numbers for a reason. The number was falling. Now they only report total revenue which they are boosting by cutting corners where they can.

And they are still clamping down in the walled garden to further cement their position.

Blocking xcode from running in darling is just a question of when.

[srtjstjsj]

Or they might raise their prices to get more margin on remaining loyal users.