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by stephc_int13 1999 days ago
This is not about innovation, this is about standards. Like Objective-C instead of C++, Metal instead of Vulkan, Lightning instead of USB-C, and countless proprietary stuff they use to lock down their users and devs inside of their closed garden.

This is wrong and detrimental to the whole industry, including users.

Apple would have created a shitty internet if they were in charge at the time.

To be honest, Microsoft did pretty nasty things during their era, but I think that Apple would have been so much worse.

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* Objective-C first appeared one year before C++

* Metal was launched two years before Vulkan

* Lightning was invented two years before USB-C