<story><title>Jailbroken iOS can&apos;t run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubyfan</author><text>I sort of wonder if they are going in the opposite direction. iOS on Mac seems like where they headed.</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is a wild ride - interesting to see how far apart they are. If Apple was planning on ever running OSX on iPads and time soon, you&amp;#x27;d imagine that some of these differences would have been smoothed over already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I wrote about why I think that&amp;#x27;s exceedingly unlikely back in April, knowing that there was a chance I&amp;#x27;d be proven wrong just two months later (i.e., today). I wasn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;micro.coyotetracks.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;the-mac-and.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;micro.coyotetracks.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;the-mac-and.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My argument from there is that Apple has been demonstrating a consistent philosophy since the start of the iPad:&lt;p&gt;- Macs are general purpose computers&lt;p&gt;- iPads&amp;#x2F;iPhones are application consoles, analogous to game consoles&lt;p&gt;That philosophy doesn&amp;#x27;t preclude securing macOS in annoying ways, but it &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; preclude locking down macOS like iOS. The notion that Apple would force all Mac apps to be installed from the App Store because it would increase their revenue simply doesn&amp;#x27;t hold water, because, as I noted then, the Venn diagram of &amp;quot;users likely to walk over such a change&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;users likely to spend boggling amounts of money on Apple hardware&amp;quot; is close to a perfect circle. Even if that&amp;#x27;s only a few percent of those high-ticket users, that&amp;#x27;s literally millions of lost unit sales.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I stand by my thoughts then that if Apple was ever going to try such a radical move, it would have been last year, with the introduction of Apple Silicon and the relatively radical redesign brought by macOS Big Sur.&lt;p&gt;The flip side of this philosophy, though, is that we&amp;#x27;re probably not going to ever see iOS open the way macOS is any more than they must for technical, market, or regulatory reasons.&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that in the long run there&amp;#x27;s a new OS that will replace both macOS and iPadOS, and at that point, all bets may be off. But I don&amp;#x27;t think we&amp;#x27;re going to see that within the next few years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jailbroken iOS can&apos;t run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubyfan</author><text>I sort of wonder if they are going in the opposite direction. iOS on Mac seems like where they headed.</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is a wild ride - interesting to see how far apart they are. If Apple was planning on ever running OSX on iPads and time soon, you&amp;#x27;d imagine that some of these differences would have been smoothed over already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthurcolle</author><text>Nightmare scenario</text></comment>