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Is there a lower level of API below Cocoa as Win32 API below MFC? If there is, Is it widely used in Mac OS X or iOS Application develepment?
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Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS.
Win32 Disk Imager is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is balenaEtcher, which is both free and Open Source.
The Windows API is still being developed. For example, see Windows 8.1 New APIs and features for developers and Windows 8 and 8.1 API Index. Obsolete? Not likely.
The Cocoa frameworks. The classes in Foundation provide objects and functionality that are the basis, or “foundation,” of Cocoa. The classes in Application Kit furnish the objects and behavior that your users see in the user interface, such as windows and buttons, and handle their mouse clicks and key presses.
CoreFoundation is the lower level C APIs:
http://developer.apple.com/corefoundation/
Foundation classes is the higher objective-c foundation set of classes:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/_index.html
Apple offers 'toll-free' bridging of types between these:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFDesignConcepts/Articles/tollFreeBridgedTypes.html
For OSX AppKit (Cocoa) is the higher level UI framework which uses the foundation classes:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/_index.html
For Devices (iOS), there's UIKit (Cocoa Touch) over the foundation classes:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIKit_Framework/_index.html
All of these are widely used in OSX and iOS development ...
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