As an app developer, having to eat an ever increasing Mac hardware cost upfront may push people like me to just focus on Android.

gruez 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You think the situation is better on Android? The margins for Android OEMs are even thinner.

meindnoch 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hold on! Even people like you?

Omg. Going short AAPL 10x leverage!

Except you only need to eat that hardware cost once a decade.

	▲	HlessClaudesman 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You would think, but My 2019 MacBook can barely run an older xcode that doesn't emulate newer phones / tablets. Some of these responses to my above post are a bit haughty. I'm just reporting from the trenches that the Apple tax is real, not everyone can afford to keep paying up, and a 20% cost increase is huge.