Good luck with that Apple hate open source. They probably think its dangerous lol. Apple and Open source don't go together.
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Apple has to open their OS to third party stores due to EU laws in 2024. They are "reportedly" working on it. And there are jailbreak app stores out there:
Even microsoft is working on one and so is stepapp for europe.
They don't hate it, they use it extensively in their operating systems and sometimes publish open source projects like Darwin and Swift. They also have some large open source areas on Github and there is the opensource.apple.com website.
It would be more correct to say they pick the license (open or not) for their projects depending upon what they think their business needs, most often it's closed source but not always. They also use a lot of open source code themselves and sometimes contribute back. Also they tend to avoid GPL/LGPL type licenses though and prefer Apache/MIT/etc.