I'm confused. I use dozens of iOS apps which are built on react-native (BSD). Signal messenger (which I use daily) is GPLv3 licensed. And I don't know about the client code but I bet 95% of the apps I use depend on GPL code on the servers which power them.

The majority of Apple's stack is opensource, too. Take a look through http://opensource.apple.com/ some time. The kernel and huge swathes of their ecosystem are opensource. I'm writing this comment in chrome, which has millions of lines of opensourced webkit code in it, written by paid Apple engineers. And compiled in clang/llvm, which is developed, maintained by Apple. Oh, and its opensource too.

I'm totally confused by the argument that Apple hates opensource. They depend on it. They give back. They're a good citizen.

They just aren't huge fans of the GPL, but so what? Neither am I. Neither is Rust (MIT), or Golang (BSD) or the NodeJS community (90%+ BSD/ISC). Opensource simply doesn't need the GPL to bloom in today's world.