On: Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacti...

[ehsankia]

This kind of logic is so annoying. If it's so easy / good for profit / advantageous / smart business, then why doesn't Apple do it?

The whole "they only do X for profit" is such a lazy argument, because it can be used to argue any side of the argument if you try hard enough.

[madeofpalk → ehsankia]

  idk, Apple does have open source? Swift is *incredibly* open, but probably a outlier for Apple. It's operating systems aren'tt, but kernal is (right?).

None of these companies are open sourcing their core competencies. Google Search isn't open source.

[jbverschoor → madeofpalk]

LLVM has been pretty import for Apple. Webkit has been important. BSD has been important, but afaik they don't really contribute a lot back anymore, although Darwin is open source.