Of the 10GB the /Developer folder takes, about 8GB are the iOS stuff.
It seems normal they would bundle these since if you are downloading XCode, pretty sure you are doing Objective-C for iOS.
4GB is a big download and it does take space and it does take a while to install. But frankly, most people should be able to manage this quite nicely (and maybe even find a way to take back some of that space).
If anything, the whole thing deserves a tweet not a huge blog post.
du -h -d 1 /Developer/Platforms/ 10M /Developer/Platforms//MacOSX.platform 4.4G /Developer/Platforms//iPhoneOS.platform 4.2G /Developer/Platforms//iPhoneSimulator.platform 8.5G /Developer/Platforms/
Of the 10GB the /Developer folder takes, about 8GB are the iOS stuff.
It seems normal they would bundle these since if you are downloading XCode, pretty sure you are doing Objective-C for iOS.
4GB is a big download and it does take space and it does take a while to install. But frankly, most people should be able to manage this quite nicely (and maybe even find a way to take back some of that space).
If anything, the whole thing deserves a tweet not a huge blog post.