Devs complain about XCode, but the libraries/frameworks are great. Publishing to the app store is pretty easy, and there are hundreds of millions of potential customers, which are there because the curation of the app store is good (enough). If you want to know what happens when your IDE is OK-ish, but the other aspects fail, look at Microsoft's presence in the mobile phone market.
If Microsoft kept WP 8 compatible with WP 7, just adding the C++ support game studios were asking about (NDK style), without rebooting the whole thing into an incompatible mess across mobile, tablets and desktop, it would have had much more developer love.
But Sinosfky and his supporters had to push their anti-NET agenda, followed by clever decisions like killing C++/CX as well, and here we are.
