Apple may return iOS to its original 'iPhone OS' name at WWDC

canucklehead

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Each device could have tailored the UI to its own needs. But that would have been hard. Instead now we have iPhone OS, iPad OS, Watch OS, Mac OS and soon Glass OS. Such a missed opportunity.

Actually, except for MacOS, the other OSs: TVOS, WatchOS, and iPadOS were developed based in the original iOS. In other words, they are all essentially iOS tailored for their respective devices, except without the bloat of code that would be irrelevant for the other devices but with the extra code that would enhance the use of those different form-factors.

Not at all a missed opportunity.

crowley

Don't care bear.

lonestar88

JWSC said:

By intelligently designing the OS abstraction layers, Apple can use a library of lower level common code components on all devices, while tailoring the higher functionality on each unique device.  It’s the best of both worlds.  And it’s all UNIX under the hood anyway.

I think yours is the most cogent comment on this article.

mr lizard

Perhaps the OS for their AR/VR glasses could be called eyeOS... 

superkloton

roundaboutnow said:

So now we have:

• macOS
• tvOS
• watchOS
• iPadOS

...it makes sense for phones to be iPhoneOS, but now what about the iPod?

That question has already been asked in article. 

darth_kalel

canucklehead said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Each device could have tailored the UI to its own needs. But that would have been hard. Instead now we have iPhone OS, iPad OS, Watch OS, Mac OS and soon Glass OS. Such a missed opportunity.

Actually, except for MacOS, the other OSs: TVOS, WatchOS, and iPadOS were developed based in the original iOS. In other words, they are all essentially iOS tailored for their respective devices, except without the bloat of code that would be irrelevant for the other devices but with the extra code that would enhance the use of those different form-factors.

Not at all a missed opportunity.

Actually. iOS was derived from macOS. Steve Jobs even made that clear when he unveiled the first iPhone. At the time of the reveal he said it ran a version of Mac OS X. Then later on the operating system got it's official name of iPhone OS before being renamed iOS with iOS 4. So technically  speaking all of e Apple's OSes were developed based on macOS removing the code that wasn't needed making it work better for phones tablets and wearables.  But people seem to forget this. iOS/iPhone OS was based on macOS. Just tailored towards smartphones with all the stuff that wasn't needed for a phone taken out.