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Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-sure-its-been-discussed dept.

AHuxley noticed the frightening little Ars story talking about a certain expectation that iOS and MacOS will merge, leading to a single DRM-locked OS on your MacBook and your iPad. Certainly Apple would love a piece of every app sold. Now I'm sure that this has been discussed over there, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

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  1. I welcome the by _PimpDaddy7_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    iMerge(TM)

  2. Oh Please by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it's not one thing it's another. Apple is dying. Apple is dead. Apple can't recover. The iPod can't save Apple. The Mac can't come back. The iPhone can't save Apple. The 'walled garden' will be the death of Apple. The iPad's failure will kill Apple ... and now the MacOS & iOS are going to merge resulting in pushback, backlash and eventually Apple's demise.

    These are different markets and different products. I can't rule out an "Apple appliance" that will serve as a desktop type of computer with iOS running on it ... phasing out MacOS over the next decade? maybe ... but merging the two? Not very likely.

    1. Re:Oh Please by jimicus · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you listened to all the fanboi rumblings, you'd have given up years ago and bought an abacus.

    2. Re:Oh Please by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

      Please, this talk of walled gardens and apples is only going to fuel Jobs's God complex. Let's come up with some other metaphors.

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    3. Re:Oh Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think the gays need these products, and we should be a liberal enough civilization to allow gays to choose their own lifestyle, as long as they aren't actively making out in public or otherwise disturbing the peace.

      I've never minded the homosexual lifestyle and in this spirit I think we should be happy for them to choose Apple products, after all, you wouldn't expect them to choose women or Windows if they really were born gay right? And more and more, we're finding out that ones sexual and electronic manufacturer preference are often set early in childhood if not even before birth!

      Let the gays have their computers and I think we'll be a better society for it. Lets here it for macfaggots!

  3. Deus Ex Macintosh by Darric · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will this be like when IcarOS and DaedalOS merged into HeliOS?

  4. Re:FUD by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're uncertain what FUD stands for, please re-read the summary. Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.

    Or Female Urination Device..

  5. Re:Not like I havent been saying this for a while by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a Mac user. I'm not concerned in the slightest.

    Clearly.

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