Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak

Re:Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to Ne... by zaroth on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:51AM (#20758408)

I think they are trying to protect a billion dollar ecosystem which is their App Store.

Apple's App Store earns developers something like 50%+ more revenue than equivalent apps on Android. No small part of that is due to the ease of piracy on Android.

I do not see any contradiction, nor any "bait-and-switch". The operating system and a kernel are not the services engine which keeps their company running. Open sourcing that code doesn't imperil their primary revenue streams.

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Re:Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to Ne... by papermachete on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:01PM (#20759667)

The very foundation their ecosystem runs on is free and open source, and up for grabs for forking and modification. However, their proprietary app store is not, and neither is force-loading my own custom apps. In my point of view, this is where I see the contradiction.

Granted the worldwide open source community has had and has nearly zero interest in making a darwin distro with a minimalistic tiling window manager, or anything similar. Yet I see gnu/linux developers create dozens of linux distros and dozens of functionally identical window managers. So much for side-rant.

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