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Or they have been treating macOS as a mature OS where there is little space for the revolution. Except that part of "barely touching" is not really true.

  > You can also tell that macOS is not a priority because
  > security updates for same kernel issues always come weeks
  > after they've been fixed on iOS.

Or you can tell that iOS has much larger user base and hence the priority for security fixes.

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> Or you can tell that iOS has much larger user base and hence the priority for security fixes.

Yeah because that single guy that needs to code all security patches has to finish iOS first before he goes to another building to work on macOS?

We are often discussing (me included) Apple moves like they have very little resources to do anything. Then I think again and d'oh.

AKAIK Apple no longer has a separate MacOS group. You could interpret this as a good or bad sign -- I interpret it positively. The Mac folks can develop drivers or whatever they need but core tech (e.g. GCD) need no longer start on one platform.

Ultimately, all the various *OS functions report to the same senior vice president. However, there still are teams that predominantly do macOS, iOS, etc, and there always have been engineers who worked on multiple platforms. Historically, the barriers have mostly been against porting iOS technology to macOS, but that hasn't been an issue in several years.

He might be married though.

Are you telling me that the richest and most valuable company in the world can't coordinate security patches of two of its biggest OSes that share a lot of kernel code?

Remember when one of the richest and most valuable companies in the world couldn't properly implement the HTML/CSS specs for over a decade?

You can also tell that macOS is not a priority

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OS has much larger user base and hence the priority

Didn't you just repeat what he said?

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