By: James (no.delete@this.thanks.invalid), June 23, 2020 2:19 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
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.
Given that iPadOS is a separate thing now, surely that's "merely" a marketing issue?
As you say, a lot of code is common anyway, and there's no reason for that not to continue.
Apple seems to understand ease-of-use and pleasure-of-use as well as anyone: I would be shocked if they went down the Windows 8 route of making an interface that made sense for touch at the expense of keyboard/mouse, or vice versa.
So the OSes are going to continue to be mostly the same with different skins: the technical question is simply to what extent will they share code.
And as for the marketing side, there's little point in having the same name for the OS if the systems have different names. Apple don't want people to think of their high-end Macs as grown-up iPads. One might as well ask when Intel are going to unify Core and Xeon, since "it seems obvious the underlying details have a lot of overlap right now".
> 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.
Given that iPadOS is a separate thing now, surely that's "merely" a marketing issue?
As you say, a lot of code is common anyway, and there's no reason for that not to continue.
Apple seems to understand ease-of-use and pleasure-of-use as well as anyone: I would be shocked if they went down the Windows 8 route of making an interface that made sense for touch at the expense of keyboard/mouse, or vice versa.
So the OSes are going to continue to be mostly the same with different skins: the technical question is simply to what extent will they share code.
And as for the marketing side, there's little point in having the same name for the OS if the systems have different names. Apple don't want people to think of their high-end Macs as grown-up iPads. One might as well ask when Intel are going to unify Core and Xeon, since "it seems obvious the underlying details have a lot of overlap right now".
