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I don’t know when Apple turned evil but hard for me to support them further after nearly four decades. Everything they do now is directly opposite of what they
by lvl155 10mo ago
I don’t know when Apple turned evil but hard for me to support them further after nearly four decades. Everything they do now is directly opposite of what they stood for in the past.
- tsunamifury 10mo agoApple absolute Never believed in open source in the past so yes. They are not the same
- lostlogin 10mo agoWhere does Swift fit into this? I haven’t followed along but believe it’s open source and a search appears to confirm this?
- lvl155 10mo agoSwift language is open source but the entire ecosystem is as closed as they get. The fact that no one is building anything outside of the ecosystem says everything about Swift and Apple’s intent. The fact that they still won’t support Linux on M chips also says they don’t care.
- knorker 10mo agoNot never. Woz championed some of that in the 1970s. It's before my time, but the Apple II was pretty open as I understand it.
- saagarjha 10mo agoCurious what this has to do with the post?
- lvl155 10mo agoApple trying to “open-source” something is pretty relevant. I don’t trust them at all. People constantly go at Microsoft but what Apple has done in the last 15 years is far worse. Their monopolies have had far worse impact than whatever Microsoft ever did with Windows and IE.
- saagarjha 10mo agoWhat would you suggest they have done here?
- wkat4242 10mo agoYeah Apple was on a good track for a while with things like OpenCL. But completely reversed course :(
- robertoandred 10mo agoWell, the industry rejected OpenCL in favor of proprietary CUDA. Oh well...
- bigyabai 10mo agoThe poor industry, self-selecting for high-quality SDKs that macOS won't sign. Wouldn't they be upset if Apple ends up hurting themselves? As rare as Apple is to admit it, there is this mercurial thing called "competition" that haunts the free market. OpenCL would have had an excellent chance if Apple took it as seriously as Nvidia took CUDA. But they didn't, it was thrown over the fence and expected that everyone else would do the work. While Nvidia was shipping Linux and BSD-native CUDA drivers, Apple was just distributing loose specs and begging the OpenCL working group to stop rewarding their competitor. Not for a lack of funding or motivation, Apple lost because they were butthurt. OpenCL was DOA the moment Apple stopped treating Nvidia as a proper threat. Everyone else in the industry supported CUDA and was fine with it.
- AnonymousPlanet 10mo agoI decidedly disagree with about everything you said regarding Microsoft. The Microsoft monopoly is the most life sucking cancer the corporate world has ever experienced. Compared to that the entire existence of Apple is merely a footnote. Don't mistake your stupid phone for the world.
- lvl155 10mo agoI sunk my twenties involving the sh*tshow that was Microsoft antitrust. No, Microsoft shipping IE by default is pretty benign compared to what Apple has been doing for far longer than whatever Microsoft ever did. In fact, one can make an argument that Windows was really an open platform for developers based on Today’s standards.
- knorker 10mo agoApple has not been nice and open since the 1970s. The only open and nice person in any important role is Wozniak.