How long before they unify OS X and iOS?

By: nobody in particular (nobody.delete@this.nowhe.re), June 22, 2020 11:55 am
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anonymous2 (anonymous2.delete@this.example.com) on June 22, 2020 12:53 pm wrote:
> How long before they unify OS X and iOS? 2 years? 5 years?
>
> You have to think it's going to happen sooner or later even if they have different interfaces/skins
> it seems obvious the underlying details have a lot of overlap right now.
>

What would that even mean? ARM Macs will be fully binary compatible with iPhone and iPad apps, which tells me that it already is unified.

If you mean replacing the desktop interface with the iPad one, I don't think that's likely to happen, ever.
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  How long before they unify OS X and iOS?anonymous22020/06/22 11:53 AM
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