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Apple is a hardware company that prioritized design and built / bought (next step) software because it had to, and ignored web services because it didn’t value
by phodo 8y ago
Apple is a hardware company that prioritized design and built / bought (next step) software because it had to, and ignored web services because it didn’t value it (at least in earlier days)
- sschueller 8y agoThen why does apple play such hardball against open source software [1]? If they really are just a hardware company they should be supporting open source. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721
- icebraining 8y agoApple dislikes the GPL, not all open source (they work on Webkit, LLVM+Clang, CUPS, Swift, FoundationDB, and a few others). It's not so different from other companies (e.g. on Android, Google used the Linux kernel, but replaced all other userspace components of the traditional GNU/Linux distro by non-copyleft versions, including developing their own libc).
- jaabe 8y agoMaybe it started that way, but I personally buy into the old Jobs view on Apple as a software company. I do this because I myself primarily buy Apple products for their software. It’s anecdotal of course, but I own a MacBook Pro because I like OS/X more than Linux, and, certainly more than Windows, not because it has a touchbar. Similarly I primarily own an iPhone because I much prefer iOS to Android. I also prefer iCloud services and iMessage to all their similar options. In fact my biggest grief with the iPhone isn’t the missing headphone jack or the ludicrous price tag, it’s that Siri is so much worse than the other voice assistants. Maybe that’s just me, but I suspect I’m not alone, and that’s why I think their core problem is software rather than hardware.