iOS and macOS: What does the future hold?<article>
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<p>It’s easy to get so focused on the details on the present that we miss the obvious questions about the future. When John Siracusa wrote about
the dangers of Mac OS X getting old in 2005, that operating system had only been around for five years—but he wasn’t wrong that Apple would need to address major shortcomings in the operating system in the long term.</p><p>So with iOS riding high (and serving as the basis for pretty much every major Apple platform that isn’t the Mac), it’s hard to imagine what comes next. And yet
some tweets by Steve Troughton-Smith made my eyes pop open. After linking to a fascinating Ars Technica story about Fuschia,
Google’s next-generation operating system project, Troughton-Smith wrote: “We’re far enough into the age of mobile that the big players are designing the OSes that’ll follow it-surprised if Apple isn’t doing same. It’s not so crazy to think that Apple would want to replace both iOS and macOS with something new and more unified. Post-XNU [the Kernel that runs iOS and macOS], post-BSD [Unix, the underpinnings of iOS and macOS].”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3219695/ios/future-of-ios-and-macos.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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iOS and macOS: What does the future hold?
