Apple is shutting down OpenNI

Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by spot on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:14PM (#7306912)

there doesn't seem to be any explanation of how/why apple is doing this.

anyone know what's up?

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by roc on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:52PM (#7307205)

The same thing that was "up" when they bought Siri, Inc (from SRI International).

They acquired a technology that they're going to use to differentiate their products. And apparently they feel it's a more strategic technology than, say, WebKit or LLVM.

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by zeckalpha on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @03:08PM (#7307313)

They didn't "acquire" WebKit or LLVM in quite the same way as Siri or OpenNI.

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by roc on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:27PM (#7309921)

And no-one said they did.

I mentioned WebKit and LLVM to make the distinction between technologies Apple has no problem making available to 'the community' and those they do not.

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