[happymellon]

That's because the majority of iPhone users are consumers.

The majority of Mac users are producers, creating content for the iPhone users. If they kill Mac then their iPhone cash cow will dwindle as they will no longer have content.

[0x457]

> The majority of Mac users are producers

That's not true at all, and sounds like Mac user elitism that everyone hates.

It is true, that many iPhone users aren't interested in mac and some not interested in any kind of desktop/laptop device at all. The same true vice-versa - I have a mac* and not interested in iPhone and plenty of my colleges are the same.

*: One because compliance is easier than on Linux and another one because I need to develop for mac and iOS.

[happymellon]

Sorry, that's not what I meant, I incorrectly phrased that the wrong way around.

If you are making stuff for iPhones, you essentially have to have a Mac because XCode to create iPhone apps requires a Mac to run. I meant the majory of app creators are Mac users. So if they kill the Mac workflow then they will castrate the cash cow that is the iPhone.

I know there are alternative workflows you could make by using something that can cross compile to iPhone and using a Windows/Linux system, then renting a Mac device via a cloud service like AWS, but I would be surprised if it made up a significant amount of development.

[0x457]

> If you are making stuff for iPhones, you essentially have to have a Mac because XCode to create iPhone apps requires a Mac to run.

I would assume people at Apple aren't brain-dead to kill mac and not have an alternative development flow, haha. "killing mac" if it's on a table would include allowing other platforms to build iOS / iPadOS apps.

[jaywalk]

This is pretty much only because the Mac is the only way to "officially" create iPhone apps.

[happymellon]

And, while it is really the only way to create iPhone content Apple cannot let the Mac die.