Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world. "the ability to install Linux" with zero commits and support from Apple themselves, all reverse engineered. Meanwhile Intel and AMD both contribute to the Linux kernel.
How much kool aid do you have to drink to think that 'ability' is actually something you can say is a feature with Apple devices?
Come back when I can unlock the bootloader of an iDevice and we'll talk about the 'ability' to install Linux.
You really will not gain much credibility here on HN by throwing in some random, made-up ranking results. And I can guarantee that 99.99% didn't even read past that sentence /s
Apple: Prevents sideloading without a host MacOS computer.
Sideloading is temporary.
Blocks third party app stores.
Blocks any and all browsers using a non-Safari engine.
Not one iPad or iPhone has ever been bootloader unlockable.
They've locked out iMessage people from being able to port their number out of the service for YEARS.
Tell me what part of this screams openness.
Even the most restrictive devices are less restrictive than Apple's. If the "ability to install Linux" is the benchmark here, guess what... that's nearly every single fucking device in the world. Except the majority of Apple devices, of course.
Apple explicitly has gone out of their way to prevent this.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/06/booti...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-must-be-done-to-bring-lin...
Apple does ZERO to allow people to use an OS outside of their sandboxes. With the Intel based systems, Bootcamp is still restricted and limits hardware access necessary to run Windows properly on their systems.
Yes. Apple is restrictive as fuck. As far as Technology companies go, yes, I'd put them up at the top.
Your turn with sources and citations.
And #1 restrictive tech company? Did Oracle disappear while I slept?
Apple does not.
https://lwn.net/Articles/867540/
Edit: I am not really talking about WebKit, Darwin, and the other projects they only developed for themselves.
But, you can also look at their GitHub repositories: Swift, llvm, cups are at least three open source packages they maintain.