It seems like Anthropic is taking the Apple approach to these apps. Apple made it hard to mod their hardware, or run other OSs on the hardware, or run their OS

It seems like Anthropic is taking the Apple approach to these apps. Apple made it hard to mod their hardware, or run other OSs on the hardware, or run their OS on other hardware, or use other app stores on their phones. Basically, they want to make it so that you buy into the Apple stack with one or two all-or-nothing decisions, with very little room for mixing and matching. Not a very hacker-friendly strategy, but Apple's market cap is pretty big. I think it comes down to whether Anthropic can make a product with enough of a lead over competitors to offset the restrictions.