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I feel like Apple was more open to alternate distribution options at the beginning of OSX, but I might be wrong in this. tvOS and watchOS have made their softwa
by bluejekyll 10y ago
I feel like Apple was more open to alternate distribution options at the beginning of OSX, but I might be wrong in this. tvOS and watchOS have made their software distribution completely Apple lock-in, i.e. you can only do it with Apple tools, see bitcode requirements.
- pjmlp 10y agoThey had to, as they were about to close shop. Apple was the last surviving company of home computers, from the likes of Acorn, Atari, Commodore, MSX,..... All of them controlled the whole experience, both hardware and software. By the time Apple bought NeXT (which in practice was actually the other way around), they need to attract developers back to their platform, so they played nice. Nowadays they have plenty of money on the bank and can be back to being as they always were.
- Someone 10y agoMSX wasn't a company; it was a platform promoted by multiple companies, many of them Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX#Manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX#Manufacturers lists, for the original MSX: "Spectravideo, Philips, Al Alamiah, Sony, Sanyo, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Hitachi, National, Panasonic, Canon, Casio, Pioneer, Fujitsu General, Yamaha, JVC, Yashica-Kyocera, GoldStar, Samsung/Fenner, Daewoo/Yeno, Gradiente, Sharp/Epcom, Talent, Frael." AGE Labs
- pjmlp 10y agoI know, but on the phone it is easier to write MSX than search and type that list you posted.