I am not, nor have I ever been, a big fan of Apple. (apart from all the usuall complaints, I am one of those freaks who just doesn&#x27;t like Apple&#x27;s interface &amp; design). But this is a step in the right direction. Would it be better if it were more open? sure. Is it useless if it isn&#x27;t? not really, it still protects the users and puts pressure on other manufacturers to do something similar.<p>Who knows, maybe internally they&#x27;re even looking at making things more open but that could require a lot more work w.r.t. scanning for patents and such in their code and perhaps they want to have a strong solid release of whatever they would consider a &quot;full system&quot; before they put up their code for all to see.<p>Apple doen&#x27;t, historically, have much of a history of opening up but they did open up Swift recently. Perhaps new winds are starting to blow like they did at Microsoft.