Over the years, Apple has repeatedly dismissed the idea of merging iPadOS and macOS into a single operating system.Will that change under John Ternus? On an earnings call yesterday, Apple's new CEO responded to a question about the topic.In short, the answer remains no.
"We don't have any fundamentally different changes that we're planning right now, nor would we talk about it anyway," said Ternus, in response to an analyst asking about the possibility of a unified Apple operating system.The full question and answer from ' transcript of the earnings call: In a 2025 interview about iPadOS and macOS merging, Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi said the company does not want to build "sporks." "It turns out it's not a good spoon and it's not a good fork," he said.While it appears that iPadOS and macOS will remain separate operating systems, Macs and iPads have more and more feature overlap over time.
For example, the new MacBook Pro models with OLED displays have touchscreen functionality.
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