As far as free developer tools, I again don&#x27;t know what is different from before. I hear you, but haven&#x27;t experienced the nirvana you describe: I&#x27;ve been on Windows, where development tools have very often been free to play with and require payment to use them for real work.<p>The way I look at it is that Apple&#x27;s gatekeeper role is appropriately minimal on OS X and appropriately strict on iOS, and for my part I trust the twain will never meet because of exactly that &quot;general purpose computer&quot; difference, but you have added some thought-provoking perspective.