It took me a while to understand an accept how closed and proprietary the Apple ecosystem is. I don't mean it is bad or good, but it is their platform, their product and they control it fully.<p>There is no point in saying "it's not fair, they locked me out...", they OWN the platform, they can do whatever they want with it.<p>There is also no point is trying to work around it, hackintosh, vm, whatever, I did it and it's just pain.<p>If you don't agree with how Apple does things (I don't), then walk away. It took me a long time, but I am now fully free of the Apple ecosystem and I develop for other platforms.<p>What I am saying is that we cannot have it all, we cannot have a well funded platform, with marketing done for us, distribution done for us... and be fully free (as in freedom).<p>This is why it is important to think things properly when using proprietary technologies, they are more polished, have support, but have a freedom cost.<p>We should not complain about google, apple... closing accounts, we should create new open alternatives, for everything. Of course it's not easy, it's hard, way harder than complaining. For this, they are multiple tools, technical ones (writing open source stuff), but also political and legal ones (like GPL).