Subj : Re: MacOS
To   : Ennev
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Dec 21 2017 18:42:57

  Re: Re: MacOS
  By: Ennev to Nightfox on Thu Dec 21 2017 04:36 pm

 En> Maybe sooner than later they'll ditch macOS all together and then open

Do you mean "sooner OR later"?  Not sure "sooner than later" makes sense.  When
exactly would "sooner than later" be? ;)

 En> source it to the community like its kernel Darwin already is, they already
 En> gave it to the community a few years ago. yet if you check an iphone
 En> kernel or mac you'll read something like : Darwin 17.3.0

Long ago (1980s), Apple once tried to claim that they held a copyright on
things like overlapping windows and other parts of a GUI (even after they got
the rights from Xerox), and Microsoft fought them in court on that.  It would
be funny if Apple ended up open-sourcing their GUI after all these years.  I
think it would be interesting too, since Apple tends to use a lot of
Objective-C.  I don't think Objective-C is owned by Apple, but it seems Apple
and Apple products are some of the only software products by far that use
Objective-C.

 En> Might be soon, microsoft is making an serious ARM version of windows.

I heard about Microsoft doing that.  I heard it will only be for the 32-bit
version of Windows 10 though, so you won't be able to run 64-bit software on
it.  A lot of software is still made in a 32-bit version though.  I wonder what
that would mean for the PC market..  Intel is a fairly well-known name,
although as far as mobile devices, I don't know if many people even know
who/what ARM is and that their mobile device has an ARM processor.

 En> In
 En> the past mac where based on 68K, PowerPC then intel. I'm just not sure
 En> they'll port macos, they'll probably just leave it behind and adapting iOS
 En> even more to act like a mac.

I hope that's not the case..  I think OS X is a fairly decent desktop OS, and
there's a reason why MacOS and iOS look and behave differently - They're
designed for different types of devices.  MacOS does have the "Launchpad"
though, which looks sort of like iOS.

Nightfox

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