[Iv]

Give me open source dev tools for the iPhone and I'll jump.

While it is a closed garden, I'll begrudgingly accept it can be marginally better in some fields than other options, but Apple tries very hard to be a proprietary island in a world that has switched to free software.

[HL33tibCe7]

That really isn’t true when it comes to phones, though.

[smoldesu]

The world of phones is based on free software. Android is based on the Linux kernel and AOSP - iOS is based on XNU, which is a combination of GNU implementations and BSD patches.