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Meta's open AI hardware vision

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215 points GavCo | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jameslk ◴[15 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41851534[source]▶
That title is most definitely a swipe at OpenAI. It seems there’s a theme of two types of platform companies: the closed one that has the “premium” platform, and the open one that gets market share by commodifying the platform.

macOS vs Windows

iOS vs Android

OpenAI vs Meta AI?

Edit: Another observation is Meta seems to open things defensively. Facebook had a rich developer platform until Facebook stopped needing to grab market share. Meta’s VR platform was closed until Apple challenged them with Vision Pro. Then Meta announced open sourcing Horizon OS. I wonder if Meta will truly keep things open if they win, or if it’s more like a case of EEE?

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ipaddr ◴[15 Oct 24 22:31 UTC] No.41853807[source]▶
macOS isn't a premium product over Windows nor is iOS over Android. Windows isn't really an open platform either. OpenAI is more open as it doesn't require logging in.

A simple narrative doesn't exist connecting these three product battles. The only thing that comes to mind is macOS, iOS and OpenAI are designed for the novice. You could probably add Coinbase vs Binance or Uber vs Lyft or Facebook vs Google Plus and be able to keep that narrative.

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russelg ◴[16 Oct 24 00:24 UTC] No.41854457[source]▶
Ironically macOS is more "open" (as in source available) than Windows.

https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

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1. ipaddr ◴[16 Oct 24 02:31 UTC] No.41855058[source]▶
Microsoft was anti open source until the world changed. Windows was never open source or source available. It's ironic they own github. It is more shocking macOS is source available.
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2. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[16 Oct 24 03:37 UTC] No.41855369[source]▶
> It is more shocking macOS is source available.

Nitpick: It's actual Open Source, not Source Available. Not the whole thing, but what code they release is under permissive open source licenses.

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3. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[16 Oct 24 06:53 UTC] No.41856285[source]▶
Sorry, mostly permissive licenses; there are a tiny number of copyleft things in there (famously, the last GPLv2 version of bash)