Apple's Closed Ecosystem
Comments criticize Apple's tight control over its hardware and software platforms, including app store restrictions, resistance to open standards, alternative OSes, and developer tools that threaten their dominance.
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Apple will never consider doing that. Their actions speak to the exact opposite: total control of their devices and ecosystem, non-cooperation with other companies on standards, stringent app store controls. They gain nothing, in their eyes, to allow that development model.
I don't understand this comment. Apple has will for many things. They could give you a rubber room to build software on a mac or even an ipad, but keep strings attached and not let you run it without asking permission (like ios now)
I think OS makers explicitly don't want to do this. In the case of Apple, they prefer you to use all their tools and technologies. It allows them more management of the experience.
Unfortunately it's likely they will go "full asshole" as Apple is a controlled ecosystem.
Only because Apple made a non-open platform.
If this is merely based on platform, Apple is simply setting a precedent for other frameworks. From a business perspective, they don't want to lose direct control of the development of applications, especially since the Apple app approval ;) process has been shown to have holes as of late.
No, it is a deliberate business decision - they are moving towards converting the macOS into a closed sytem like ios.
I hear you, but Apple isn't known for developing in this way. Their focus is on controlling the entire experience, hardware to software. Still, anything is possible
apple is built on free and open tools, and you can’t make free and open tools on apple products. it is a sad state of affairs.
Point blank I think Mac App Store restrictions, iOS restrictions, and the current decrepit state of AppKit are all a systemic approach by Apple to prevent new powerful tools from emerging that threaten their current market dominance. Ben Thompson wrote the canonical piece about this situation[0], but I think this paragraph from a different article is the best summary[1]:> The reality for Jobs and Apple was that the company’s users needed Office (along with Adobe’s products) more than they