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Apple Sells You a Smaller World, and You Keep Buying It
It started in a garage and now runs on custom silicon, a services machine, and a billion-plus devices that all talk to each other. Here is how the walled garden actually works - and why leaving it feels like moving countries.
Rudrank Riyam
Rudrank Riyam is an iOS developer and creator from Gurugram, India, best known for MusadoraKit - a Swift framework that simplifies MusicKit and Apple Music API integration. A WWDC 2019 Scholar, Google Summer of Code 2019 alumni, and former Apple intern, he has built an impressive open-source portfolio spanning music, mesh gradients, vector databases, and AI tooling. His ASC CLI tool was acquired, and he now builds at Rork, an AI-powered no-code mobile app platform. He shares his journey through his AiOS Dispatch newsletter and a comprehensive ebook on MusicKit.