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Iv on Dec 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups

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 on Dec 7, 2022 [–]

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

smoldesu on Dec 8, 2022 | [–]

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.

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