[CoastalCoder]

Honest question, is that comment meant at face value, or is it sarcastic?

My impression of Apple has been that it's a mixed-bag for privacy, etc., so I'm actually not sure.

[dc-programmer]

Apple’s garden (orchard?) is famously walled. This just means they intentionally make their hardware incompatible with other hardware/software. Presumable so you have to buy more Apple stuff

[Gigachad]

Apple Health is not a walled product though. Any 3rd party app can pull and push data.

[asdff]

Not really the case for their computers imo. OS X is like a linux distro but with paid maintainers.

[dc-programmer]

It’s more of an aspirational wall. If they could get away with it, 3rd party software on the Mac would go the way of the headphone jack

[whimsicalism]

Try getting Siri to use google maps :)

[asdff]

I consider Siri like some mold from iOS that has spread and polluted OSX, rather than a fundamental part of OSX.

[whimsicalism]

Sarcastic :) (but hopefully not snarky?)

For privacy, certainly they have been a crusader. For open standards, considerably less so.