{"id":257045,"date":"2018-04-20T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T09:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=257045"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T09:19:32","slug":"apple-is-not-combining-macos-and-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/257045-apple-is-not-combining-macos-and-ios.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple is not combining MacOS and iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has no plans to combine MacOS and iOS, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook.<\/p>\n<p>Cook stated that a merger of the two operating systems &#8211; one for PCs, and the latter for smartphones and iPads &#8211; would require diluting one of the systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/04\/19\/dont-expect-apple-combine-macos-and-ios-anytime-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reported Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t believe in sort of watering down one for the other,&#8221; said Cook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the reasons that both of them are incredible is because we pushed them to do what they do well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you begin to merge the two, you make trade-offs and compromises, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Cook follows a Bloomberg report from 2017 which stated that iOS and MacOS were being tested in a unification project.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/256969-amazon-prime-video-criticised-over-drop-in-video-quality.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon Prime Video criticised over drop in video quality<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has no plans to combine MacOS and iOS, according to Tim Cook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":224292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,691,36626],"class_list":["post-257045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-macos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257047,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257045\/revisions\/257047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}