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What do you mean by “merge”? iOS and macOS are the same thing. iOS (with a different UI toolkit) is macOS.
by jki275 7y ago
What do you mean by “merge”? iOS and macOS are the same thing.
iOS (with a different UI toolkit) is macOS.
- grey-area 7y agoI mean they'll have one App and UI toolkit (probably based off ios) which handles both desktop and ios, simplifying development, making cross platform apps easier, and dramatically cutting support costs for Apple. At the moment the base OS is the same but the huge SDK used to create apps has two parallel tracks without a huge amount of overlap (though they are increasing the overlap, and encouraging things like porting from ios to Mac OS). Each SDK takes a lot of resources to maintain and support.
- jki275 7y agoI don't think they'll ever do that. They would lose a significant majority of those of us who use Mac laptops to develop real software. They'll make cross-platform development between iOS and macOS easier, they're already doing that -- but getting rid of macOS (which is essentially what you're saying) isn't smart for them.