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Microsoft was always the continuity OS company. The fact that they need a concerted effort to get closer to what Apple has maintained is ridiculous. That they had separate and incompatible desktop, gaming, tablet and phone OSes is a monstrous error that puts them behind, again, for years.

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I don't understand the Apple comparison. Do iOS apps run on OS-X?

The fact that they're consolidating the console, desktop, and tablet/phone OSs is the impressive accomplishment, not the phone/tablet consolidation.

As for consoles, a few years ago, consoles were a whole different beast from what they are now, so it wouldn't have made much sense to have the OS the same.

No but iOS shares a lot of code and APIs with OS X, which simplifies Apple's development.

Apple understands that different devices need different UIs but can share code and core APIs.

Microsoft thinks that different devices should have the same UI but hasn't previously managed to share code and APIs.

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