Well, the Mac was the "Computer for the rest of us", so I am not sure how this is news: developers were never the target market.

IIRC, the original Mac also needed a Lisa for development with the MPW (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/macintosh/programming-faq/#b).

So things have actually improved tremendously since then, with free and improving dev tools, open-source Unix underpinnings etc. The end of the world will be postponed...