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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by chongli on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:27AM (#39614790)
If Apple doesn't like this, they should provide cross-platform native APIs for developing applications.

It’s not in Apple’s interest to do that. It would cost a lot of money to develop and only benefit the competition. It would also slow down Apple’s own ability to innovate on the APIs until the competitors catch up.

Or are you saying Apple should develop the APIs for Windows and Linux as well? Why would they do that?

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:38PM (#39621100)
> Or are you saying Apple should develop the APIs for Windows and Linux as well?

What they should do is provide open source implementations of their APIs for Windows and Linux, i.e. make them standards.

> Why would they do that?

Because then people would use them instead of using Electron.

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