Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate
by smoldesu on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:45PM
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Apple products have every right to be great: after all, Apple is the largest company in the world. But they also have a duty to extend their services, one that they have sorely neglected for the past 15 years. I wouldn't be so angry at Apple if things like Airdrop, Handoff and Airplay were all open protocols. The only reason Apple doesn't extend these protocols is to have leverage over their competitors. It's not like any of the aforementioned technologies are impressive, either: they were all preceded by Warpinator, XDG and MPRIS, respectively. So Apple embraces these open-source concepts, extends them with proprietary interfaces and then extinguishes the source... where have I heard this one before?
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Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate
by Karrot_Kream on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:10PM
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EEE is more insidious than this so it's important to not dilute its meaning. EEE is about taking a previously open, successful interface and then making it proprietary. It's destroying what was already flourishing. In Apple's case, they just built their own thing.
Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate
by smoldesu on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:38PM
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To be fair, they have already done that (or rather, attempted coups) with LLVM and Clang, no?
No? They hired Chris Lattner and paid him to work on LLVM and Clang for around a decade. Clang and LLVM are still open source, and the Swift compiler is also open source.
EEE is about actual intellectual property and compatibility, not just concepts. As far as I know AirDrop, Handoff, and AirPlay are proprietary all the way down.
Re:Apple is building the metaverse substrate
by tinus_hn on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:59AM
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Like it or not, AirPlay will always be proprietary for DRM reasons.