The part of original vision once was PtD concept (pay-the-developer). Now, that IF devs are running on a loss, not knowing if they will even get any reward, devs from the Team take part in internal hackathons. Instead taking care of core and APIs, they overlap and compete with unpaid community devs. That further increases organizational centralization, not mentioning they are funded from the Bamboo Fund, which was meant for the oposite purpose:
That’s my part of the rant in this topic 
Unfair?
My dream scenario would be a situation, when teams of independent app devs are tipped, use grants, get supported by the Foundation, crowdfunded etc., and develop in open source paradigm. I tried that with Autonomi Community Token project and succeeded to some extent, which gives hope, taking into account Autonomi’s popularity and relatively small community size.
If it comes to Apple / Microsoft, if anyone wants to test apps on Autonomi, Linux is available also through virtualization. These companies are in fact doing good job with popularizing Linux here