On: Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel

[navalsaini]

This means that we should have cheap non-apple phones capable of running iOS applications. Why would apple allow that?

[AsyncAwait → navalsaini]

It does not mean that at all. This is not iOS itself being open-sourced, only the Darwin kernel is open-source, which is pretty much useless in isolation, certainly for trying to develop a cheap phone to run iOS apps.

[navalsaini → AsyncAwait]

Oic ... the framework/middleware is not. I took parallels to Android. Thanks for correcting me.

[sosborn → navalsaini]

Kernel != userspace

macOS kernel has been open source since OSX came out.