Apple's Tim Cook Denies Rumors of iOS and macOS Universal Apps

In a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Apple CEO Tim Cook denied the rumors that the company is planning to merge the iOS and macOS software into so-called universal apps.

At the end of last year, Bloomberg broke the news that Apple is working on a project dubbed "Marzipan" to combine iPhone, iPad and Mac apps into some sort of universal apps that would work on all platforms the same. More specifically, the plan was to make iOS apps work on Apple's macOS operating system, which lacks essential apps.

While the idea of universal apps might have been appealing to the end users and application developers alike, Apple CEO Tim Cook denied that the company is working on such a project, saying both iOS and macOS ecosystems have their own benefits and play their own roles, and that a merger between the two wouldn't do anyone any good.

"We don't believe in sort of watering down one for the other," Tim Cook told the