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Although I'm thoroughly impressed and applaud people for doing this in their spare time, I sort of wish they wouldn't help Apple in their developer-hostile acti
by brokenmachine 4y ago
Although I'm thoroughly impressed and applaud people for doing this in their spare time, I sort of wish they wouldn't help Apple in their developer-hostile actions.
If Apple don't want to release documentation on their chips, then leave them to rot in their walled garden.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI mean, I guess there are various degrees of hostility. When Apple ported their iOS bootloader to the new Macs, they purposefully added the ability to boot third-party operating systems. They just didn't tell anyone how to actually build a third-party operating system.
- flyinghamster 4y agoExactly the middle ground, but it's a shame so much has to be reverse-engineered due to lack of documentation. It's quite a contrast from the Apple II, which came complete with schematics and a ROM listing. Obviously, today's computers are nowhere near as simple, but I hate seeing more and more about our systems becoming jealously guarded secrets. Nonetheless, a half-step like this is vastly better than the locked bootloaders, jailbreaking, and outright hostility of the smartphone/tablet/console world.