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I would say that, even if windows Vista had been great as a desktop/laptop OS, making a mobile phone OS that is based on a microcomputer OS is a mistake, not li
by rossdavidh 7y ago
I would say that, even if windows Vista had been great as a desktop/laptop OS, making a mobile phone OS that is based on a microcomputer OS is a mistake, not likely to go well.
Apple did not try to make ios a clone of Mac's OS.
- scarface74 7y agoiOS is based on MacOS. Sure the UI parts were rewritten from the ground up. Apple’s whole goal now is to unify the parts that have become divergent.
- rossdavidh 7y agoThe UI is what I meant, but sure, the underlying mechanisms might be the same. If they do, in fact, unify ios and Mac OS UI, I expect that one or the other will no longer work as well. Given their current priorities, it seems more likely that their Mac OS will suffer, rather than ios.
- scarface74 7y agoI would have agreed with you before WWDC. But most of the old school Mac developers are saying that both SwiftUI and Catalyst (aka Marzipan) give you all of the tools you need to make a great Mac app and that the TV app that was built using Catalyst is indistinguishable from the podcast and music apps that are regular old AppKit apps.