Comment by Tepix
5 years ago
If Apple were to release low level documentation and source code for hardware it considers obsolete to help developers support it, it would not effect their business other than getting a lot of goodwill.
5 years ago
If Apple were to release low level documentation and source code for hardware it considers obsolete to help developers support it, it would not effect their business other than getting a lot of goodwill.
it may not affect them at a pennies-in-billions level, but those pennies are owned by a few patent holders whose heirs will profit many times over in the foreseeable future
why? I doubt those obsolete chipsets will be used by anyone else, or anyone will be particularly motivated to shell out a lot of money for access to schematics.
they are assets in the big machine, being sold or open sourced would reduce them and their associated incomes to nothing
What patents do you have in mind? If things are patented anyway, it wouldn't hurt to document them.