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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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That's apple's decision, one of many to force their users to only get their devices, similarly not being able to host your own game servers benefits the publishers/ devs. (Edit for clarity: by this I mean that this state of things isn't caused by unavailability of open source solutions but rather by corporate greed.)
Not any different from protecting one's art creations. You spend a bunch of time learning how to code and are doing it for a living so you don't want others/ competition to take it and sell as their own. Not sure what's hard to understand.
Most programmers earn a wage, not the full value of their labor.
That's true of course. And it's true for a lot of people in other areas as well. In vacuum I'm all for open source software, in fact I would like it a lot if everything was open. But reality is that as a developer in a smaller software company we'd be out of our jobs immediately as other, larger companies would take everything that's worth taking and use their larger budgets to out advertise their copy.