For desktops and laptops, the latter. But for phones and tablets they do not want user control. And even where they do allow it, even a tiny effort in hardware documentation that would make it so much easier never happens. So it's quite hostile overall.
replyYep, good point. Their mobile OSes are annoyingly locked down, that is for sure...
replyThe fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.
replyAnd I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.
replyIt was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.
Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.
replyYou can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.
It will still run arbitrary code... Within macos...
replyBut they'll remove support for other OS's
The company making locked down laptops is Google.
replyI mean it'd be pretty easy for Apple to just make a special version of the OS/bootloader/whatever for their internal use
replyThey could. They won't. Macs will never be bootloader locked, on that I'm confident.
replyIt’s the latter
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