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I dunno. I assumed that > The standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple for iOS®, iPadOS®¹ ships on iOS® and iPadOS®. But maybe it does

by pxc 2y ago

I dunno. I assumed that > The standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple for iOS®, iPadOS®¹ ships on iOS® and iPadOS®. But maybe it doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In seriousness, exposing only a very limited interface to a flexible, capable system seems to me very on-brand for Apple. Maybe they don't iOS and iPadOS to be of the kind of platform where one thinks about drivers, even if exposing CUPS features to users would let users accomplish more without much trouble. Or maybe they see printer drivers as essentially a legacy feature in the face of a 'driverless' future. Not my cup of tea, but both seem like things leaders at Apple would do/think. -- https://www.cups.org/ https://www.cups.org/

seba_dos1 2y ago
CUPS predates iOS by a decade and wasn't developed by Apple. Apple CUPS is a distinct distribution of CUPS.
- pxc 2y ago
  Yes, and CUPS was used on macOS, from which iOS was forked before Apple releases the first iPhone. And from that same year (2007) until 2019, Apple employed the creator and chief maintainer of CUPS, which is presumably how they got their hands on the cups dot org domain. Then (as is typical of Apple's treatment of open-source), Apple stonewalled outside contributions and public releases became increasingly sparse and insignificant. So the creator and longtime ch8ef maintainer of CUPS, now outside Apple, created a new fork under the OpenPrinting banner. Thus CUPS became 'Apple CUPS' and the 'CUPS' everyone else cared about was now OpenPrinting CUPS. My point was that Apple's language on the website indicates that they probably use CUPS on iOS and iPadOS, not that that language describes CUPS' origins or is informative about the nearly three decade history of of the software or the current landscape of its forks. (Although in fairness to Apple here— a company of which I am not a fan— 'developed by' doesn't mean the same thing as 'authored by' or 'created by'.)

by pxc 2y ago

seba_dos1 2y ago

CUPS predates iOS by a decade and wasn't developed by Apple. Apple CUPS is a distinct distribution of CUPS.

pxc 2y ago
Yes, and CUPS was used on macOS, from which iOS was forked before Apple releases the first iPhone. And from that same year (2007) until 2019, Apple employed the creator and chief maintainer of CUPS, which is presumably how they got their hands on the cups dot org domain. Then (as is typical of Apple's treatment of open-source), Apple stonewalled outside contributions and public releases became increasingly sparse and insignificant. So the creator and longtime ch8ef maintainer of CUPS, now outside Apple, created a new fork under the OpenPrinting banner. Thus CUPS became 'Apple CUPS' and the 'CUPS' everyone else cared about was now OpenPrinting CUPS. My point was that Apple's language on the website indicates that they probably use CUPS on iOS and iPadOS, not that that language describes CUPS' origins or is informative about the nearly three decade history of of the software or the current landscape of its forks. (Although in fairness to Apple here— a company of which I am not a fan— 'developed by' doesn't mean the same thing as 'authored by' or 'created by'.)