While I would certainly love to see Apple become more open again, Wu's book cited in the article seems to contain quite a lot of FUD, e.g. (about the early Mac):
"Generally, only Apple stuff, or stuff that Apple approved, could run on it (as software) or plug into it (as peripherals)."
Both are simply not true, there were lots of independent vendors of development tools for the early 68k Macs, the system was quite well documented (compare Inside Macintosh to today's sorry state of Documentation for macOS) and while there were no slots available, a large number of third-party peripherals for Macs existed.
Looks like Mr. Wu either has an agenda or only very superficial knowledge (or both)... not too surprising with a background as (according to Wikipedia) "attorney, legal scholar, political figure, and government official". sigh
"Generally, only Apple stuff, or stuff that Apple approved, could run on it (as software) or plug into it (as peripherals)."
Both are simply not true, there were lots of independent vendors of development tools for the early 68k Macs, the system was quite well documented (compare Inside Macintosh to today's sorry state of Documentation for macOS) and while there were no slots available, a large number of third-party peripherals for Macs existed.
Looks like Mr. Wu either has an agenda or only very superficial knowledge (or both)... not too surprising with a background as (according to Wikipedia) "attorney, legal scholar, political figure, and government official". sigh