Some developers love them, but as a developer myself the idea that I need apples permissions to run my own apps on my own machine makes my skin crawl.

If early computing was a walled garden environment like iOS I never would have been a developer.

Early computing was a kind of walled garden.

Each computer system was its own eco-system with special hardware features.

The PC was the exception to it, only because IBM wasn't too clever about securing the platform like everyone else.

There's more than one developer out there. Developers do hate Apple.

Other developers may love it.