"I think Xcode is one location where Apple is showing that it does care about developers by building a better product with better integrated tools (git for example ...)."

I guess this is a matter of opinion. Every time I am forced (read: paid) to use Xcode for some project, not only do I dislike the fact that I have to dig out my macbook because Apple's tools don't work on any other platform, but I find actually using them painful. It's been a few months since I've used it so maybe times-are-a-changing.

The last time I used Xcode (4.0.1?), it still basically seemed that it was using the iTunes container. Of course, I have no idea how much actual codebase Xcode shares with iTunes. Apple is probably just trying to be visually consistent between their products here. But I've never been a huge fan of iTunes either. I find the menus and configuration painful.

Though it's apparent that I'm not a huge Apple fan, I'm not trying to troll anyone here. Reading your statement, I saw your praise for their developer tools and it really made me think about the fact that, while a lot of Apple's hardware is competently designed, I'm not really a fan of their software whatsoever.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single app they've written (besides mail.app) that I like.

And kudos for them integrating git? Since pretty much every other developer tool includes support for it, I wouldn't say this is all that exceptional.