Anthropic thinks they're Apple. They're actually hypocrites.

A strongly opinionated critique of Anthropic's hypocrisy: the company sent legal threats to Open Code for letting users access Claude's subscription endpoint through third-party tools, while simultaneously promoting an iMessage plugin for Claude Code that violates Apple's own terms of service. The author draws a direct parallel between Anthropic's restrictive API/subscription policies and Apple's walled-garden approach, arguing Anthropic is actually worse because their policies are deliberately vague, selectively enforced, and anti-competitive. The post also notes leaked Claude Code source code references Open Code's UI patterns, adding another layer of hypocrisy. OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, and Kilo are cited as counterexamples that allow subscription portability.