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I also find the criticism Apple receives amusing, especially from people who use Windows.

I guess you don't know that macOS/iOS is open source, except for the graphical environment and applications such as Pages, etc.

The entire kernel and OS environment is open source.

Projects such as WebKit (Safari engine), Swift, CUPS, libdispatch (GCD), mDNSResponder (Bonjour), launchd, among others, are also open source and from Apple.

Not to mention the contributions that the BSD ecosystem receives thanks to Apple, among others:

- Clang/LLVM: Apple promoted Clang/LLVM and maintains it as an open project; FreeBSD adopted it as the default compiler since FreeBSD 10 (2014).

- LLDB and the modern STL: the LLDB debugger (part of LLVM) and libc++/libc++abi were born at Apple (initially led by Howard Hinnant) and are now widely used in BSD.

- Grand Central Dispatch (libdispatch): Apple opened libdispatch, its concurrency library; there is a cross-platform version also used in FreeBSD.

- Bonjour / mDNSResponder: Apple's multicast-DNS/DNS-SD daemon is open and has a port/manuals in FreeBSD.

- CUPS: Apple acquired it in 2007 and kept it open source, used by macOS and other Unix-like systems; today its development for Linux is led by OpenPrinting.

- Swift: Apple's language is open source; since Swift 6.2 Apple announced official support for FreeBSD, and SwiftPM already supports the FreeBSD platform.

- Security (TrustedBSD/OpenBSM): macOS integrates the TrustedBSD MAC Framework (the basis for sandboxing), and Apple released/relicensed parts of OpenBSM that were integrated into FreeBSD.

When will Microsoft do this?

amused-faceless-dimmer 4mo ago 💬 2

Most of the criticism comes from what the average user actually experiences.

With Apple, that usually means the closed ecosystem that forces people into buying devices.

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Cyph3rp9nk 4mo ago

Honestly, I don't see that as a problem. They have to make money, right? It's their policy.

You're free to buy it or not.

The only thing I see wrong with Apple is that they don't let me do what I want with my device.

If an iPhone came with an Apple computer that allowed me to install apps from outside the store, I wouldn't have any objections to them.

And as a final touch, they would also release the code for their graphical environment, although let's be honest, this is their brand and where they make a difference. To a certain extent, I understand their mixed model (understanding is not the same as agreeing).