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> I don’t think there was any work done on bringing the Macintosh GUI and application ecosystem to Linux.

QTML (which became the foundation of the Carbon API) was OS agnostic. The Windows versions of QuickTime and iTunes used QTML, and in an alternate universe Apple could've empowered developers to bring Mac OS apps to Windows and Linux with a more mature version of that technology.



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