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>To me this all sounds like Apple is ready to license their CPU Not at all. Apple only makes HW for the Apple ecosystem an that's it. Just look at everything t
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>To me this all sounds like Apple is ready to license their CPU
Not at all. Apple only makes HW for the Apple ecosystem an that's it. Just look at everything they sell from monitors to earphones. Their functionality is crippled when not used with Apple HW because they're dependent on the Apple ecosystem to run at their full feature set.
What makes you think they would suddenly reverse that? They're just not in the business of building and supporting non-Apple ecosystems.
- grishka 4y agoExcept when there's additional money to be made. Apple Music is available on Android because that makes Apple money. But iMessage isn't because that would prevent some tiny bit of iPhone sales.
- legalcorrection 4y agoI suspect Apple Music is on Android for the benefit of Apple Music users who have multiple devices, some Apple some not, and want a music service that works across all of them.
- grishka 4y agoI use a Mac but an Android phone. I'd really like if things like AirDrop or FaceTime or other macOS/iOS integrations worked with Android the way they do with iPhones. I had to reverse engineer Google's Nearby Share protocol and build a (barebones and buggy and incomplete) file receiver for macOS to put an end to my misery of transferring things, primarily pictures, from my phone to my computer. But obviously Apple isn't interested in any of this; they'd rather tell me to just use an iPhone, since that would get me more hooked into their proprietary ecosystem.
- legalcorrection 4y agoI guess it's a matter of weighing the potential upside of selling you on more Apple products versus the downside of making Macs and iPhones less functional (w.r.t. interoperability with other devices).