Apple makes incredible hardware and could easily be the best development machine on the market. But I ultimately prefer Linux because I own the maintenance story and it's simple + fast. System packages and xcode are horrible experiences, and there's no reason for this to be the case in 2026.

As a non mac user who's had to setup xcode and an apple dev account for the first time ever to compile and publish an app store app update for my company - the entire thing soured me on ever even attempting mobile app development.

It really surprised me what mobile devs put up with, just an utterly horrible hostile experience.

Shallow or misguided criticisms of Apple—of which there are countless—get shredded on this website. This is not a shallow or misguided criticism of Apple. It is clearly and obviously unacceptable.

Better luck next time.

It has the davantage that you can finally find out what those apps are sending back home, including your private data.

> Apple gets a free pass on this website. … But instead the Apple fanboys will be out in force to tell us why actually its a good thing for Apple to leave parts of the OS insecure.

I have no idea how you've come to this conclusion, and clearly nothing of the sort is actually going on here.

I’m somewhat of an Apple fanboy, and I find this absolutely unacceptable.

We clearly just don't know what complex level security Apple has put into their OS. Clearly their OS isn't vulnerable or else they would patch it! (/s)