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That’s Apple’s hope as well. They started allowing even hobbyist devs to test on the device almost a year before the public release.
They don't do that to allow consumers or hobbyists tweak the device in ways they want. They want to establish a functional ecosystem, so they need apps. Once it's running, apple is the first to shut it down again and charge whatever they want
Those two statements, allowing consumers and hobbyists to tweak the device in the ways they want, and having a functional ecosystem of apps, are loosely equivalent.
I know the difference is you want hobbyists to be able to change more than Apple allows. But it isn’t a binary hobbyists or not.
That may be true but if you're looking to Apple to encourage open source enhancements for their products you must not be very familiar with their corporate philosophy. It's technically possible that could evolve but it would require a complete change in direction compared to where they have always positioned themselves which seems pretty unlikely.
There are open source apps for all of Apple’s Products. I’m using one to type this comment.
They do put restrictions on what you can make, but they absolutely want the open source and hobbyist devs.