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by mhuffman 1832 days ago
> Apple is extremely friendly to developers targeting the Apple ecosystem.

Yeah, I don't know where the hell you get that!

Do they offer emulators for non-Mac developers to target their ecosystem?

Do they make even simple development onerous if you are on a Mac and do target their system, but have the audacity to want to share the app with someone else not in the same room with you?

You want to make a free app for your business targeting our ecosystem? Pay us bitch! Also, while we're at it, pay us every year from now on! Whoa! You also want to put it on our store, pay some more you fucking pay-pig!

> Plus, unlike Android, they actually provide tons of tooling for game development and graphics programming on iOS.

... read, we are so locked into and starved for hardware options that it is easy to release a few libraries that will work for your app ... for now! Has your business not changed at all and your app doesn't need any special privileges ... but it has been more than a few years .. haha! Go fuck yourself, sincerely Apple!

> Google tells you to clone github repository from Vulkans shaderc.

Apple makes you get into a personal relationship with them. I am not sure that is much better!

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Does Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo offer the same?

The lack of personal relationship with GNU/Linux offering is what made it fail the desktop adoption.

> Does Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo offer the same?

"Whataboutism" is the last gasp of a losing argument.

> The lack of personal relationship with GNU/Linux offering is what made it fail the desktop adoption.

This is just ridiculous.