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OSX VS. iOS4
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I’ve been reading quite a few articles about Apple ‘abandoning/de-emphasizing the Mac. Isn’t iOS4 a reduced subset of OSX with touch added? When people write articles about iOS4 and OSX as if they’re completed different animals isn’t it misconstruing what is actually taking place? Isn’t X-code used to develop software for both platforms? Is it moi that has the wrong impression? Any clarification on this would be appreciated.
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Roughlydrafted addresses this exact issue:
“Psst: iOS is OS X!”
It is a tad ironic that both Google and MS both use a separate OS for mobile.
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I’ve been reading quite a few articles about Apple ‘abandoning/de-emphasizing the Mac. Isn’t iOS4 a reduced subset of OSX with touch added? When people write articles about iOS4 and OSX as if they’re completed different animals isn’t it misconstruing what is actually taking place? Isn’t X-code used to develop software for both platforms? Is it moi that has the wrong impression? Any clarification on this would be appreciated.
I think iOS is Apple’s chance to redefine the core OS without having to carry forward all the baggage inherited from the desktop which must support a much more diverse environment. With each new release we see Apple rethinking how they could implement functionality and provide a better user experience. They are obviously using the new code in both OS systems The use of Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch is a recent example GCD appeared first in Snow Leopard but with the IOS 4 we see the API move to the mobile OS setting up for a future of efficient use of multicore system in the Iphone/Ipad. We also see Apple moving Open CLand math acceleration libraries from OS X for more efficient use of GPU processor cores. Some of the feature redefined by the iOS come become core feature of OSX like Quicktime X.
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Thanks. It seemed that was the case but after awhile one starts to question. The bad news is it will piss me off even more going forward when the world wants to pretend they are separate entities. :evil:
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sleepygeek
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A large part of the OS is put together as “frameworks”, which are, if you like, kits of prototypes for parts of a running system, that can be instantiated and hooked up to create what you see and use on both Mac and iPhone.
Here is a list of frameworks in iPhone OS. Compare this with the frameworks in OSX (which you can see in System Profiler), and you’ll see nearly all iPhone frameworks are also in OS X for Mac, although Mac has many more frameworks.
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Previously Apple did call the iPhone OS “OS X”, and the desktop OS “Mac OS X”.
They are definitely closely related, but they’re really not the same. The practical differences are more important than the technical differences. They are different enough that continued advancement of iOS does not imply similar advancement of Mac OS X. That’s where these comments come from.
Honestly, it doesn’t seem like news to me. It seems to me like Apple has been slowly de-emphasizing the Mac for many years. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is open to debate.
I don’t expect Mac OS X to get the axe anytime soon, but it’s obviously not Apple’s favorite son anymore.
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...The practical differences are more important than the technical differences ... It seems to me like Apple has been slowly de-emphasizing the Mac for many years ...
Of similar view, Daniel’s eloquent dissertation of otherwise doesn’t change this fact. Mac is trapped in the old school, iOS devices is the new wave.
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PSMacintosh
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How about letting us desktop/laptop users buy and use Apps on our Macs!?!
Or using our already purchased Apps on our Macs.
