[off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

[JB]

And my question was will they have the
intelligence to do it the way you suggest.

Apple did rename OS X to macOS which
suggest changes to the OS but what will
those changes be?

If they do it they way you are thinking it
will be one of the best things they have
in years.

JB


> On Jan 2, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm coming to this late, but it looks to me as if the list got into a nightmare mode a bit prematurely. What the article actually talks about is a way to create apps which can be used across 'desktop' and mobile operating systems - specifically *not* about merging those operating systems.
> 
> In short, a very approximate way of describing the idea would be... LiveCode.
> 
> We code an app with a text field and a button; on the desktop our users click the button with the mouse, on mobile they touch it. On desktop they click into the field and start typing on their keyboard; on mobile they touch the field and a soft keyboard appears. Apple are just trying to help the rest of the developer community catch up with us.
> 
> Shouldn't we panic less? Or have I missed something?
> 
> 
> On 21/12/2017 01:01, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:35 PM, JB via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> Is Apple going to have enough intelligence to
>>> make the ios compatible with the os desktop
>>> or will they do away with the desktop to make
>>> the new mac os like the ios?
>> *shudder*
>> I'd be back on FreeBSD in a couple of days.
>> It's Spotlight and the power management on portables that has me using
>> mac as my unix platform. OK, and iCloud Drive now.
>> Mess with those (and spotlight has seriously regressed over the last
>> ten years) and I'm gone.
> 
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