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> Generally, when words are ‘nearby’ other words you have to read the context to understand why they are there.

You are absolutely right. Let me quote it for you, so that you understand the context:

"Harvard Business School working paper... differentiated a platform's openness/closedness by four aspects and gave example platforms".

Then, in the table you can see that in 2 out of 4 aspects Mac OS is a closed ecosystem according to the published research. I am astonished by Apple fanboys who cannot accept flaws in Mac OS, even if it's clearly explained by respectful independent researchers.

>In the parts of the table describing the ecosystem it has the word open in the rows for MacOS.

All four points describe the ecosystem, not just those which you choose. Again, quote: "differentiated a platform's openness/closedness by four aspects".

> All four points describe the ecosystem, not just those which you choose. Again, quote: "differentiated a platform's openness/closedness by four aspects".

The two on which Apple is rated as ‘open’ are the criteria which the article’s definition uses to determine whether a platform is a walled garden.

You are using a definition of walled garden to mean ‘any level of closedness’.

This is not what a walled garden means, and not what the article says.

If you want to use a private definition, by all means do so, but the article doesn’t have anything to do with your private definition.

For the third time - here is the definition from the article:

“A closed platform, walled garden, or closed ecosystem[1][2] is a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media.”

The table shows that Mac OS is open when it comes to applications, content, and media.

The definition is clear, and Mac OS is not a walled garden by the definition. The table supports this conclusion.

Glued components are common and do not prevent repair - what has that got to go with anything?

An emulated VM obviously doesn’t allow a binary to escape the platform because of course you still need the platform, and the binary is still running on the platform so nothing has ‘escaped’.

As I say, your point is just about what hardware you want a license to run MacOS on, which is nothing to do with whether it is a walled garden.

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