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Apple has been pretty consistent with where their priorities are. Simple, controlled and high margin. They hope you as a user aligns with those but they have en
by blinkingled 6y ago
Apple has been pretty consistent with where their priorities are. Simple, controlled and high margin. They hope you as a user aligns with those but they have enough money and iPhone sales not to care - you will buy one if you need everything integrated and have to make money developing iOS and Mac store apps.
If I had money I would buy Apple stock - they got it down good strategy wise.
- teknopaul 6y agoThe snidest part of this is to rip off BSD for years and give nowt back to those that want to run BSD outside their walled garden. Money does not justify evil.
- blinkingled 6y agoIf any BSD developers still work at Apple it would be interesting to know how they feel about it.
- acdha 6y agoOther than years of patches, clang/LLVM, and WebKit? Apple is far from perfect but the odds are good that you’re using a browser which uses or was compiled with open source they’ve supported.
- heavyset_go 6y agoWebKit was based off of KHTML, which is LGPL, and thus Apple is forced to make its modified source available or violate the terms of the LGPL.
- acdha 6y agoThis is not wrong but misses the point: they poured a huge amount of engineering time turning a browser engine which had previously been well behind the major players into a major competitor. I used Konqueror on Linux back in the day and if you'd said that in two decades most web users would be using a KHTML-derivative it would have sounded absurd.
- heavyset_go 6y agoI also used Konqueror back in the day, and remember KHTML as being smaller and faster than Gecko. I don't really find it absurd when they've picked up arbitrary bits of *BSD cruft and let them age for a decade. CUPS would have made the point better.