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Metal was released before Vulkan, and had a different design philosophy. So that’s not a good argument.

They follow the licenses.

Apple has paid developers to work on WebKit, Clamg/LLVM, and CUPS. That’s off the top of my head. All open source. All available to you. I remember reading how they contributed fixes to a huge number of packages in the OSS ecosystem when working to get POSIX certification as they fixed issues.

They released Swift as open source when they didn’t need to, and keep opening more libraries for it as they work to reimplement foundation.

You may not like Apple, but they’re not a leech. They give back.

Apple also contributed substantially to OpenCL (I mean, they were the originators of it), though CUDA (the closed, proprietary solution) ate that world.

They also had paid developers working on Apache Spark.

As well as Apache Cassandra before they switched to FoundationDB which is still open-source and maintained.

Maybe it’s because you need to take a breath while typing.

Apple does this with some other technologies as well. CoreData "is" SQLite.

CoreData is an object graph and persistence framework. It is more like an ORM toolkit than like a database engine. Indeed, SQLite is one of the possible 'backends', but it is not limited to SQLite. It also supports XML, binary, and in-memory stores out of the box, and you can also create your own if none of those suit.

CoreData is a derivative of the WebObjects' Enterprise Object Framework (EOF).

They just tied it to SQLite whereas in the past it was a general ORM.

As someone who owns apple stock. I’m good with it

The first sentence has almost no meaning. Basically anyone who has a 401k or SP500/VOO/etc owns significant amount of Apple stock. Not something worth pointing out.

There exists a world outside the USA bud.

You have articulated what i have been feeling towards apple really well. I like their products But their philosophy and approach is not up to par

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