AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

Post by BenFranklin100 » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 7:56 AM UTC

isoprophlex wrote: post #105

From a bit further down the page > Bluetooth DID (Device Identification) Hook > Turns out, if you change the manufacturerid to that of Apple, you get access to several special features! I hope Apple gets slammed hard by some regulatory body. Apparently there's absolutely zero magic reasons why their airpods are unable to connect to non-Apple devices; pretend you're an iPhone and you're in. EDIT: read "unable to conne…

Post by laserlight » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 8:07 AM UTC

bloppe wrote: post #75

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #71

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Swift went open source the day it was released. I don’t think Apple needs outside contributors. I think it has enough resources that it would be okay Darwin’s underlying code was BSD license and didn’t require releasing source code.

"[Swift] was initially a proprietary language, but version 2.2 was made open-source software under the Apache License 2.0 on December 3, 2015" Darwin is also a bad example: "On July 25, 2006, the OpenDarwin team announced that the project was shutting down, as they felt OpenDarwin had "become a mere hosting facility for Mac OS X related projects", and that the efforts to create a standalone Darwin operating system ha…

Post by lloeki » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 8:11 AM UTC

ffsm8 wrote: post #109

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The only reason Apple ditched Lightning port and finally gave USB-C port in the iDevices, is because EU forced Apple to do so. But do you think your oh-so-common USB-C cables will work with a new iPhone? In my country (India), Apple still doesn't sell charger and cable along with its new iDevices, even though those gadgets are exorbitantly expensive. And Apple doesn't allow custom repair here, even though my country…

Couldn't you just upgrade yourself in the pre Apple silicone days? Like within minutes, with no big changes? I didn't think it's rare that a company refuses to do any work on devices they no longer support. Their employees will no longer be trained to do this work, hence they'd have a nontrivial chance of causing damages. That's exactly why a right to repair is so important, so that other people can pick up their sla…

Post by bloqs » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 8:17 AM UTC

Post by IshKebab » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 8:21 AM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #92

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Mercy killed? Flash was great. There were so many inventive games and animations in that era. Apple didn’t mercy kill anything - they just removed a threat to their walled garden ecosystem using their anticompetitive position, but dressed it up as a security issue.

I’m amazed by the retconning of Flash into a great system. I agree that some of the content produced in that era was great and it was nice to have tools available, but using Flash and doing the whole browser plugin thing was not great at all. It’s actually great now that we have actual standards compliant ways of doing animations and other things in the browser without restricting it to one company’s little domain th…