> The developer mindshare really matters to apple.
The developers are going nowhere so long as the money is there to be made from iOS.
Did they all quit when it was revealed that Apple was part of PRISM? Of course not. They barely blinked.
It doesn't matter if a billion developers sign a petition. It's empty. The vast majority of them will promptly capitulate if Apple goes forward. By vast majority I mean 99%.
Did you see all the people desperately fleeing from Australia due to the rise of the extremist police state there? Nope. Did you see the tens of millions of people flee from the US when the Patriot Act was passed or PRISM was revealed? Nope. Did you see everyone rapidly flood over to mainland Europe as Britain became a police state? Nope. How about the hundreds of millions of people fleeing out of China over the past decade with the rise of Xi and the entire demolition of all human rights in China? Nope. Perhaps you're spotting a predictable human nature trend in all of this.
All the tech employees of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc. They've all quit in droves over the past decade over human rights abuses - including vast privacy abuses - and concerns for what these companies are doing? Whoops, no, the exact opposite. There was a price for their integrity as it turns out, and they grabbed the money, which is what most people do.
The iOS developers are going nowhere, either. Besides the fact that their livelihoods depend on it, there's no vast green field to run to from what's happening. Sure, some might change jobs, or switch industry segments, it will be a small group though. It's going on in just about every liberal democracy simultaneously. What huge platform are developers going to flee to that's better and is never going to feature forced on-device scanning spyware? It's coming for Android too, bet on it.
iOS is where all the profitable users are. While that holds true, developers will be there to sell things to the profitable users.
The principled indie developers might leave in protest, and that would be a terrible loss for the platform's soul, but realistically the vast bulk of money flowing through the App Store is not going to the indie developers.
The developers are going nowhere so long as the money is there to be made from iOS.
Did they all quit when it was revealed that Apple was part of PRISM? Of course not. They barely blinked.
It doesn't matter if a billion developers sign a petition. It's empty. The vast majority of them will promptly capitulate if Apple goes forward. By vast majority I mean 99%.
Did you see all the people desperately fleeing from Australia due to the rise of the extremist police state there? Nope. Did you see the tens of millions of people flee from the US when the Patriot Act was passed or PRISM was revealed? Nope. Did you see everyone rapidly flood over to mainland Europe as Britain became a police state? Nope. How about the hundreds of millions of people fleeing out of China over the past decade with the rise of Xi and the entire demolition of all human rights in China? Nope. Perhaps you're spotting a predictable human nature trend in all of this.
All the tech employees of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc. They've all quit in droves over the past decade over human rights abuses - including vast privacy abuses - and concerns for what these companies are doing? Whoops, no, the exact opposite. There was a price for their integrity as it turns out, and they grabbed the money, which is what most people do.
The iOS developers are going nowhere, either. Besides the fact that their livelihoods depend on it, there's no vast green field to run to from what's happening. Sure, some might change jobs, or switch industry segments, it will be a small group though. It's going on in just about every liberal democracy simultaneously. What huge platform are developers going to flee to that's better and is never going to feature forced on-device scanning spyware? It's coming for Android too, bet on it.
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