Comment by Invictus0
4 years ago
Surely Apple can see the value in having devs buying and using its machines... Why not contribute to this project in an even more substantive manner? Share documentation and donate money, it would be a great feel good story that harkens back to Apple's pirate roots.
I can only guess ... and my guess is that Apple likes this project and would like to see it succeed but to formally help it creates a situation that in the future could be problematic for them. Imagine their team that builds the MacBook wants to make some change that would bring some big improvement to the platform but it breaks projects like this.
Formally helping this project creates a potential burden on the organization that they do not want to have.
A former Apple engineer basically said as much on Twitter: https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1339914716454526979