News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem. Parent comment

Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by bloppe on Sunday November 16, 2025 @11:42AM (#45946403)
You're commenting on a post where a random guy provides this "nightmare of supplying and supporting an app" in his spare time, except he actually has to work around Apple's malicious obfuscation and standards non-compliance, so it would actually be way easier for Apple to do it themselves.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by oofbey on Sunday November 16, 2025 @12:09PM (#45946606)
It is in fact significantly harder for Apple. Because nobody expects random spare time GitHub project to work perfectly. Or even very well. Apple’s reputation, and trillion dollar market value, is based on the idea that their stuff works perfectly.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by nirava on Sunday November 16, 2025 @12:29PM (#45946777)
good god man, just accept that this is objectively an EXTREMELY easy thing to do for anyone. Yes theoretically there are things that are easier for OSS devs than large companies, THIS AIN'T ONE OF THEM.

Ugh, trillion dollar market value doesn't mean they are incapable of making a basic android app. Check their move to ios app if you have any doubts.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by hluska on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:32PM (#45947721)
It doesn’t matter how frustrated you get or how many times you write capital letters, Apple is a private company and can do exactly what they want to do. If you would like Apple to do your bidding, acquire a controlling interest - it’s public so there’s nothing stopping you.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by nirava on Sunday November 16, 2025 @03:35PM (#45948175)
Welcome to this argument which is about how easy/hard it might be for a company to implement this particular feature.

The argument about whether they ought to is in some other thread I imagine, you might have lost your way. I don't own their airpods so in this particular instance, IDC about the outcome.

Caps for emphasis, not frustration.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by piva00 on Monday November 17, 2025 @02:45AM (#45951615)
> acquire a controlling interest - it’s public so there’s nothing stopping you.

Except for the biggest obstacle of it all in capitalism: capital.

If that's the only way anyone can try to change companies' behaviours we are in a lot of trouble :)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by orphea on Monday November 17, 2025 @09:04AM (#45953639) 

  > Apple is a private company
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/aapl
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by encom on Sunday November 16, 2025 @01:21PM (#45947178)
It's not so much an idea, it's more of an illusion. One that Apple marketing spends billions to maintain.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by manmal on Sunday November 16, 2025 @06:05PM (#45949270)
Are you aware they are maintaining multiple complete OSs, and multiple versions of each? With drivers for hundreds of components? The scope of AirPods on Android is laughable in comparison.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by brookst on Sunday November 16, 2025 @12:23PM (#45946728)
Are you saying this would the first time an unpaid open source effort has done something a big company declined to do because of the operational costs they face?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by sroussey on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:26PM (#45947675)
Except if you read the page this links to, for Android you need a rooted device only and you want Apple to make software with those requirements.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AirPods Libreated from Apple's Ecosystem by gblargg on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:46AM (#45962083)
From what it says, a rooted device is required because Apple made them behave differently depending on the host. Apple wouldn't have needed a rooted Android device to support all the features.
[ Parent | on HN ]