Comment Re:Not a whole lot, that's what, silly editors. (Score 2, Informative) 280
...between iOS and OSX...
OS X stopped being OS X in 2016. It's called macOS since macOS Sierra.
2) This leads to obvious synergy to be exploited...
Once you have a device that is either OSX or iOS on-demand, the former suddenly inherits the latter's need for hard lockdown...
Again, you're making assumptions.
Targeted Disk, is a combination of technologies.
Target Disk Mode, not "Targeted Disk".
1) a hardware level presentation of the volume as an external media device.
Correct...
2) OSX recognition of this external media device...
...and wrong. Target Disk Mode doesn't depend on macOS for anything. When you boot a Mac in Target Disk Mode the operating system in that Mac isn't running. The computer is behaving as an external hard drive, at the hardware level. I can boot my MacBook Pro in Target Disk Mode, plug it to another machine, and format the MBP's disk and use it as a swap partition for a FreeBSD host if I feel like it.
Jumping the shark like you did, and presuming I am some kind of idiot, is off the mark and wrong.
More assumptions. Stop being on the defensive.
Disclaimer: I'm an Apple ex-employee. I know what I'm talking about.