This article makes an acrobatic leap from
1. iOS devices are locked down.
2. Current iOS devices have security features in HFS+ that aren't present in macOS HFS+ (such as?).
3. APFS has more security (encryption?) features that bring macOS in line with iOS.
4. macOS is going to become locked down.
This may be true, but I don't see it from the evidence provided. I may be wrong, but I don't think that the file system on iOS is the reason that it is locked down and the file system on macOS is why it is open? Disk encryption has very little to do with cryptographically signing and protecting the OS.
Apple has been taking the good bits from iOS and moving them to macOS. Deprecating software update in favour of the App Store and changing how the OS is downloaded seems to be one of these cases.
Apple has repeatedly said that they aren't going to merge iOS and macOS. They're two different systems with different contexts. Walling macOS off makes little more sense than opening up iOS completely.
1. iOS devices are locked down.
2. Current iOS devices have security features in HFS+ that aren't present in macOS HFS+ (such as?).
3. APFS has more security (encryption?) features that bring macOS in line with iOS.
4. macOS is going to become locked down.
This may be true, but I don't see it from the evidence provided. I may be wrong, but I don't think that the file system on iOS is the reason that it is locked down and the file system on macOS is why it is open? Disk encryption has very little to do with cryptographically signing and protecting the OS.
Apple has been taking the good bits from iOS and moving them to macOS. Deprecating software update in favour of the App Store and changing how the OS is downloaded seems to be one of these cases.
Apple has repeatedly said that they aren't going to merge iOS and macOS. They're two different systems with different contexts. Walling macOS off makes little more sense than opening up iOS completely.