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		St-Clock on July 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance But you need a Mac to develop most (i)OS applications and I cannot imagine some of the more complex apps being developed on an iPad-like device.

untog on July 26, 2012 [–]

It's all about where the mass market is. Just like the low-selling Mac Pro machines, Apple could quite happily keep OS X going for the professional minority that require a POSIX-like experience. The vast majority would use a slightly upgraded iOS, where all of that is hidden away.

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