nanoscopic

This should be re-titled. It is inaccurate. It implies that some notable percentage of MacOS/iOS is published. Nothing of the sort is true.

They publish a tiny minority of those systems that they are forced to due to the licenses of components they use in those systems.

My JSON parser ( github.com/nanoscopic/ujsonin ) has these things:

0. Looks essentially the same as JSON

1. Core data types, and customizable data types can be added easily.

2. Arrays, Objects, and arbitrary nesting.

3. Comments ( both /* */ and // format )

4. Multiline strings ( by default; carriage returns are no problem within strings )

5. It is JSON with relaxed restrictions and slight addition for actual named types.

6. I've written C, Perl, and Golang implementations so far.

While Apple is very restrictive and controlling, they aren't as controlling as many imply about running your own/custom apps on phones.

You can sign up for a free developer account and sign apps onto your iDevices for free. ( 3-apps at least, for 1 week at a time )

If you pay for a developer account you can sign many more apps to run on your devices as you like. This includes apps that would not pass the store approvals.

I agree it is a hassle to have to install apps that way, but at least they do allow it.