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Right. Apple became "open" as a competitive move. Catered to the tech folks with the UNIX-based OS. Then when they developed a new competitive moat in iPhone
by fouc 7y ago
Right. Apple became "open" as a competitive move. Catered to the tech folks with the UNIX-based OS.
Then when they developed a new competitive moat in iPhones, they were able to move back to closed.
- pjmlp 7y agoAnd that was just an accident, if Jobs were at Be instead, not sure if they would have bothered with anything UNIX related. Even NeXT wasn't that open to UNIX, for them that was just a way to have a foot on the young workstation market, NeXTSTEP hardly leveraged POSIX for the framework APIs.