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It's also a rather important security feature.

That argument is not really useful as you can basically set up the Mac to make it really insecure.

The real question is should those who really care about security and are fine with the limitations of an sandboxed app really be defining the OS X ecosystem.

When OSX and iOS merge, there won't be any options other than the App Store. Might as well bite the bullet and make the necessary revisions, or just decide to abandon the Apple market.

Not that Apple never spoke an un-truth, but they're on the record saying that will not happen:

http://fortune.com/2015/10/13/apple-merge-ios-os-x/

(They also said they would not launch a small tablet and so on...)

No stylus also.

Which is still true, there's no stylus for the iPhone. You can buy one for the iPad Pro, which is a completely different product, just like you can buy a Wacom tablet for your Mac.

I know. My point was that Steve Jobs was extremely critical of tablets that have a stylus and said ipad won't have one ever. But they went back on that, too, like the other examples.

Ah, I was only aware of Jobs' comments about styluses in 2007, which are often quoted but not really relevant (he was talking about phones). Turns out he also brought it up in the context of the iPad:

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/steve-jobs-stylus/

That's not happening, and wouldn't be worth worrying about until it's announced anyway.

We know it's not happening because Tim Cook has explicitly said so. Additionally, it doesn't make financial or engineering or UX sense.

Eeeeeeh ... you know .... iOS is just a mobile version of MacOS ... to be specific it's macOS code plus some code to make it mobile friend. Thus there is zero need for a merge.

Is that really happening? Links or you just got information from inside Apple?

I'm speculating. I just can't see the financial upside for Apple to continue with Mac OS X. The vast majority of their sales and profits are from phones, tablets, and music.

Mac OS X and laptop and desktop hardware will become more and more of a distraction. We've seen them stagnating already. As a unix, Mac OS X is a rather elderly BSD.

They may keep a laptop device in the mix, but it will be more like a chromebook and run iOS.

Again, I'm speculating.

Except you need to use macOS to develop iOS apps.

Now, yes. No reason that couldn't change. It's just software.

> When OSX and iOS merge

[Citation needed]

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