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They will merge, eventually. iOS/iPadOS is the future. Ever iteration macOS becomes more iOS like. The compute model is changing. I am now old and enjoy doing
by themagician 3y ago
They will merge, eventually.
iOS/iPadOS is the future. Ever iteration macOS becomes more iOS like.
The compute model is changing. I am now old and enjoy doing computers the "old way." I watch younger people wizzing through apps on an iPad and they are able to do 85% of what I can do on a desktop—and if I'm being honest they can often arrive at the same output faster.
There are tons of exceptions, of course. No terminal, limited filesystem access, no Xcode, applications like Photoshop and Final Cut run with a limited feature set, etc.. The list is actually quite long. But every year the list gets shorter.
Somewhere in a room at the Apple spaceship is a chart that has all three OSes converging under a single OS, probably aptly called OS. I'm sure they keep pushing the date off into the future, but it will happen. The numbers are really getting up there too—macOS 14, iOS 17, etc.. If I had to guess, there will be no iOS 20. We will get AppleOS v1.0 instead.