Is that bad? It's like saying Pepsi shouldn't have to experiment and reverse engineer Coke since the secret formula is sitting in a vault in Atlanta[0]; Apple's IP is theirs and they should be able to share it as freely as they want or not at all.

0: https://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/media-alert/coca-cola-moves...

It's pretty rare you see ants in an ant colony saying "I dragged this food all the way back to HQ, so you can't have any".

Yet we see the equivalent with humans all the time. Globally less efficient use of time/money/resources for 'fairness'.

Human society was basically an ant colony before we were able to passively, efficiently take care of our basic needs (food, water) and implemented the barter system so that you can only benefit from society if you also put effort into it. Over thousands of years this philosophy has scaled up to the point where Apple underwent nearly 20 years of R&D effort and spent tens of billions of dollars to create the M1 chip - and thus they are allowed to share it as much or as little as they wish since they put the effort into making it.

I think 'mpweiher just submitted the post; 'svenpeter wrote it.