And developers have been bending over with beaming smiles on their faces for just as long.
Apple's behavior might change if the developers keeping it alive left for other ecosystems in sizable enough numbers. Unfortunately, that has yet to happen in the mobile space, so Apple continues to have no problem shafting mobile devs (the desktop space is a different story, however, since Apple is not dominant there except for very specific market segments, like hipster Ruby programmers and/or art students).
Apple's behavior might change if the developers keeping it alive left for other ecosystems in sizable enough numbers. Unfortunately, that has yet to happen in the mobile space, so Apple continues to have no problem shafting mobile devs (the desktop space is a different story, however, since Apple is not dominant there except for very specific market segments, like hipster Ruby programmers and/or art students).