With antitrust regulators (including, to a certain extent, the relatively feckless ones in the USA) breathing down Apple and Google's necks, they might not be able to get away with enforcing that rule for long.
I really hope that the EU might step in once again. I own an iPhone, I am a software developer, but I cannot distribute apps to end users, because I don't own a Mac. That is frustrating.
I’ve never tried because I’m on Mac these days, but can’t you meet the licensing rules by using a Mac vps for 10 minutes to do a build, or even just use GitHub actions? (I read that GitHub actions provides a Mac build option but I’ve not tried it)
I don’t know about the consoles, but I'm a Windows Developer with over two decades of experience.
In contrast to MacOS, I can run Windows on pretty much every x86 machine available. Thanks to EU reseller laws, I can also obtain a cheap license. Finally, I have to pay a small one-time fee for a developer account at Microsoft, in contrast to the recurring fee Apple is charging.
