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>The ecosystem has also lost its mojo, and Apple is the one that killed it.

It's not just Apple, this has been a general trend for several decades. In the nineties I paid for Office (about £400 I think), now I use Google Docs. It was the same for development tools, £1800 for an MSDN subscription, now I use VS Community, git and open source components.

I suspect this is inevitable because the marginal cost of software is so low.



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