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This only follows if Apple indeed wants to kill macOS. If they want users... then you kind of need to have even low level documentation. Because the kind of se
by ethbro 9y ago
This only follows if Apple indeed wants to kill macOS.
If they want users... then you kind of need to have even low level documentation. Because the kind of serious apps and third party feature adds that make an OS bearable to use depend on them.
- mavhc 9y agoOf course they want to kill macOS, it's only a small fraction of their profits. They've rewritten all the software they've acquired over the years, Final Cut Pro etc, I'd bet they're internally compatible with whatever their future iOS based desktop OS is.
- valuearb 9y agoIt's a $25B+ a year business that earns more profits than all the other PC makers in the world combined. I'm pretty sure they don't want to kill macOS.
- mavhc 9y agoNot saying they want to kill Macs, just move them to a new OS so they can share developers with the 10x larger iOS market. If you have 50% of your OS programmers working on an OS that only 10% of your users use, seems like a waste
- photojosh 9y agoBut macOS and iOS share enormous amounts of code, if not the majority. The kernel is pretty much the same. APIs usually get support on both systems, with the exception being the UI layer. Indeed, if they have different APIs on the 2 platforms for the same functionality, you can probably bet that pretty soon one will be ported across to the other and the other obsoleted. Recent examples: PDFs, Bluetooth, Media SDKs (AV Foundation etc).