[flohofwoe]

Not a controversional opinion at all but instead very obvious, and for a long time now.

At least macOS is a UNIX under the hood these days (unlike MacOS 9), which provides some 'cross-platform synergies', but looking at where Apple has been taking these UNIX roots with iOS that was probably just a lucky accident. Enjoy it while it lasts (on macOS at least) ;)

[pjmlp]

Had BeOS been acquired instead of the NeXT reverse acquisition, Apple's history would have been much different, and most likely there wouldn't be any UNIX desktops to chose from (as I doubt Desktop Linux would have been any different in such alternative universe).