Ok, but instead of putting down someone who knows less, please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(a recent longer explanation of this principle, for anyone who cares, is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130956)

Yeah, maybe. They are driving the price of software to zero which helps ios and macos device sales. But I think if they work hard to close things they might end up with a bigger part of a smaller pie. I don't know, maybe they don't need help from people on the outside and can do it all themselves.