Concluding that Apple doesn't care about developers has become a vogue statement to make partly because Marco has taken to saying it routinely.
It's not totally unreasonable to needle at Apple because there are lots of things they could do to improve developer relations, and openness about service status and reliability is clearly one of them.
On the other hand, taking it as true that they are actually indifferent takes a bizarre leap of logic, given how much effort they put into the tooling, the documentation, WWDC itself, making WWDC content available to those who can't attend, etc.
It's obvious that they are overloaded and are having problems scaling support for their developer community. It's far from obvious that they are indifferent.
[edit: downvotes - of course, because I'm not vehemently attacking Apple. Bear in mind that I don't think it's bad to needle at Apple, but I think it's only because people know that Apple does care about what developers think that it's worthwhile. Meanwhile let's not get things out of perspective.]
It's not totally unreasonable to needle at Apple because there are lots of things they could do to improve developer relations, and openness about service status and reliability is clearly one of them.
On the other hand, taking it as true that they are actually indifferent takes a bizarre leap of logic, given how much effort they put into the tooling, the documentation, WWDC itself, making WWDC content available to those who can't attend, etc.
It's obvious that they are overloaded and are having problems scaling support for their developer community. It's far from obvious that they are indifferent.
[edit: downvotes - of course, because I'm not vehemently attacking Apple. Bear in mind that I don't think it's bad to needle at Apple, but I think it's only because people know that Apple does care about what developers think that it's worthwhile. Meanwhile let's not get things out of perspective.]