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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by pvg on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:39AM (#25188556)
This is not so much a flip but probably the closest thing to a meaningful 'reversal' compared to the other ones in thread so far. Like, they never said they will never have an App store, styluses are still specialized rather than standard input devices, etc. Obviously, companies both change direction and fail to meet various expectations all the time but 'history of flipping the script' seems pretty tenuous to me, so far.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by pvg on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:44AM (#25195662)
There's a few more I thought of in this vein, of various sizes:

zfs

java (and also ruby, python) as 'first class' Cocoa languages

GC'ed ObjC runtime

[Ancient history but kinda huge!] just about the entire post-System 7 technology stack and roadmap was tossed.