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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by oarsinsync on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:16AM (#21453701)
> How is it “disinformation”? Do you think anyone on HN doesn’t understand the statement to mean what I said for it to mean?

At least one person[0] didn't understand and publicly stated as much. While iOS was originally spun off from macOS, it's very much it's own system, with there being no ability to run macOS applications on iOS, and vice versa (although the latter is slowly changing with recent macOS releases). Comparing the two is disingenuous at best.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21452862

EDIT: And here's at least one more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21453368

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:36AM (#21453937)
Well actually..,

Most iOS app can run on MacOS - the iPhone simulator compiles iOS code natively to x86 and links to an x86 version of the iOS frameworks.

Apple also introduced both catalyst and SwiftUI to make porting back and forth easier.

And yes “words mean things”. I specifically said “variants.” So if again you want to be pedantic, I could just as easily say that Apple sells more iOS devices than all Windows PC makers combined.

Also, if you want to try to exclude iPads from the iOS ecosystem because Apple now calls it “iPadOS”, iPads can still run iPhone apps.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by saagarjha on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:32PM (#21459191)
> Most iOS app can run on MacOS - the iPhone simulator compiles iOS code natively to x86 and links to an x86 version of the iOS frameworks.

Yeah, except no app developer ships their simulator build to customers to run in the iOS Simulator…

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:00PM (#21459358)
They are starting to ship Catalyst based apps though....
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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by computerex on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:09PM (#21458378)
You can't run After effects or do software development on iOS. You can't run PHPStorm or docker or final cut pro. I see the iPad/iOS as being usable for a very small slice of professionals.
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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:51PM (#21458970)
Guess what? Most people aren’t developers nor do they run After Effects. They do however run Office. Photoshop was also just introduced for mobile. Heck most people don’t do anything with their personal computers but “consumption” and even that has been moving to mobile
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