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Apple's self-contained platform, huge sums of money, and massive upgrade adoption rates would make it very easy for them to ship modern software. They for some reason choose not to


iOS and OSX isn't modern software ?

I am curious about the qualities an operating system needs to be deemed "modern".


I personally love iOS and macOS and use them both daily. Though there are facets of both that I think could easily be improved given Apple's position.

Off the top of my head -

A. Slow development cycles on Safari (they're getting better, but still) while simultaneously blocking competitors on iOS

B. A number of embarrassing security failures on macOS recently

C. A lack of focus on macOS (Probably the cause of B)




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