Cook has said that is not their plan. He insists that the touch and non-touch environments can’t co-exist in a practical manner. However, I believe the two OS’s should reconcile how common tasks are labeled and performed. It’s confusing when one OS has more options than the other. For example, the Contacts app on iOS has a subset of the organization abilities of Contacts on MacOS. This is illogical considering that you likely add contacts when you’re mobile.
A merger of the two OS’s is not likely to happen until the majority of customers desire it. The bulk of Apple’s customers probably own just the phone, and perhaps a tablet. The next segment own a phone and laptop. The rest of us own one of everything, and we still depend on desktop hardware for our occupations—but we’re a minority. Not in the world per se, but as Apple customers.
