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Money that goes into this is money that doesn't go into the shareholders pockets or into growing Apple. It's like asking Whatsapp to allow third party clients or expose their API. Makes tech nerd sense but not business sense.

At the of the day, tech nerd sense is working your socks off on an OSS that companies get to use for free with 0 contribution to the ecosystem while accepting underpaid tech jobs. Business sense is decreasing costs and increasing revenue in the long term




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