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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by jodrellblank on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:01PM (#13800610)
APFS isn't proprietary, as Apple's website claims that "Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format specification

Great. ... anyone else still waiting for the open FaceTime API announced in public on stage by Steve Jobs?

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by coldtea on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:49AM (#13801296)
>Great. ... anyone else still waiting for the open FaceTime API announced in public on stage by Steve Jobs?

Only people who missed the part that some other company took them to court over a BS patent on it and won, so they couldn't finally do it.

Meanwhile, they HAVE opensourced other stuff, including Swift, in the meanwhile, so it's not like they have some big history of backtracking on open sourcing promises...

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by comex on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:56PM (#13800785)
That was six years ago :)

The rumor is that Apple changed its mind due to the VirnetX patent lawsuit, which forced it to switch FaceTime from P2P to relaying all calls through a central server. But who knows if that's the whole story. I'd still like to see an open FaceTime.

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