Comment by inventor7777
3 hours ago
Is Apple taking steps to purposefully blocking open stuff, or are they just pointedly ignoring it and continuing to develop new hardware? I am genuinely asking, I don't know myself.
edit: speaking mostly about macOS here, mobile OSes are much more locked down
For desktops and laptops, the latter. But for phones and tablets they do not want user control. And even where they do allow it, even a tiny effort in hardware documentation that would make it so much easier never happens. So it's quite hostile overall.
Yep, good point. Their mobile OSes are annoyingly locked down, that is for sure...
The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.
And I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.
It was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.
Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.
You can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.
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It’s the latter