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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by madeofpalk on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:05PM (#26964588)
Let’s not pretend they do these things as charity.

Chrome is open source because, as a fork of WebKit, it has to be. For other things, they use open source to drive adoption.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by ajayyy on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:09PM (#26964622)
This is not true, webkit is BSD license. If that were true, then Edge, Opera, etc. would also be open-source.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by josefx on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:31AM (#26966362)
Going by the wiki entry only Apples additions are BSD the original project is LGPLv2.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by ehsankia on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:47PM (#26965332)
This kind of logic is so annoying. If it's so easy / good for profit / advantageous / smart business, then why doesn't Apple do it?

The whole "they only do X for profit" is such a lazy argument, because it can be used to argue any side of the argument if you try hard enough.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by madeofpalk on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:23AM (#26967419) 

  idk, Apple does have open source? Swift is *incredibly* open, but probably a outlier for Apple. It's operating systems aren'tt, but kernal is (right?).
None of these companies are open sourcing their core competencies. Google Search isn't open source.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by jbverschoor on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:44AM (#26967867)
LLVM has been pretty import for Apple. Webkit has been important. BSD has been important, but afaik they don't really contribute a lot back anymore, although Darwin is open source.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by jbverschoor on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:41AM (#26967851)
Apple was a big contributor to webkit waay before Chrome even existed.

I don't really understand the love for Android (and sometimes Google) and hate for Apple. The first versions of Android were a clone of blackberry until Apple unveiled the iPhone.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by lacksconfidence on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:49PM (#26972076)
> I don't really understand the love for Android (and sometimes Google) and hate for Apple

The reasons are all over this discussion, just spend some time reading it. My takeaway might be that some people value autonomy and ownership, and feel like Android gives them more of that.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by jbverschoor on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:43PM (#26975644)
I did. Misinformation in too many posts
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by ryukafalz on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:07PM (#26965063)
Chrome is not open source.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by Gaelan on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:47AM (#26966071)
Sure, but Chromium, which is ~identical, is.
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