Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it, and built an active community who contributed, or if it was more than 100 websites long.
But the heavy publicity push seems a bit early. And, it feels like Apple’s announcement is little more than “hey guys, check out this POC repo!”.
It kinda feels like Apple doesn’t get OSS.
I doubt the PR department is pushing out a footnote on the developer portal to a bunch of Mac rumor blogs.
MacRumors and AppleInsiders both don't have the article.
You're hating on it for being from Apple? That makes as much sense as loving it because it's from Apple.
Perhaps they truly don't have more information and released everything they have – and this is a "what if we were to come together".
But it doesn't feel immediately useful, and so I'm reluctant to believe that companies will bidirectionally contribute to this.
It may or may not be useful to anyone, I have no idea. But to characterize this as a "heavy publicity push" doesn't make sense. It's not a push, there's no publicity, and there's nothing heavy about it.