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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by zanny on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:11PM (#6608363)
I don't think iOS is anything unix, at all. They might reuse system utilities from OSX and its kernel, but that is like saying if you put the same motor in a pickup truck and a dune buggy you have the same vehicle.
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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by lukeman on Thursday October 24, 2013 @07:01PM (#6608647)
"The iOS system is based on the same technologies used by Mac OS X, namely the Mach kernel and BSD interfaces. Thus, iOS apps run in a UNIX-based system and have full support for threads, sockets, and many of the other technologies typically available at that level."[1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone...

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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by brownbat on Friday October 25, 2013 @12:30AM (#6609765)
So the original prophecy was right, it just left out the bit about all the wonderful walled gardens that will help protect us from using the underlying *nix technologies in inappropriate ways.
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