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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by grey-area on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:22PM (#11896602)
iOS devices brought in revenue in Q1 2016 of around 58B, vs 7B for macOS - even iPad sales alone are greater than macOS devices. You can expect this focus on iOS to continue, or even accelerate, as they focus on making more money from all those iOS devices (like driving adoption of iCloud, Apple Music and other monthly subscriptions).

http://www.statista.com/statistics/382136/quarterly-segments...

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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by derefr on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:41PM (#11898682)
You could say that macOS was responsible for a good amount of the iOS revenue, insofar as 1. devs using Macs are a lot more likely to spontaneously decide to try developing iOS apps, and 2. having more iOS apps sells more iOS devices.

If Apple only sold iOS devices and you had to develop for them from e.g. Windows, I don't think the app ecosystem would have been nearly as large—making getting one a rather less attractive proposition.

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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by ben_jones on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:03PM (#11898794)
I got my first mac product (mbp) a few months ago, I've dabbled in OSX development but still feel guilty for not trying iOS dev yet, despite not even owning an iPhone.
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Re:OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock by ddoolin on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:29PM (#11899550)
You honestly don't even need an iPhone until serious testing seeing as the Xcode simulators are amazingly functional.
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