“Michael Tsai - Blog - The Case Against Marzipan”
Discussion. I don’t know yet what I think about iOS apps coming to macOS
“Michael Tsai - Blog - The Case Against Marzipan”
Discussion. I don’t know yet what I think about iOS apps coming to macOS
@baldur I feel like they'll be similar to Electron apps: They won't be good Mac citizens but we wouldn't have them at all otherwise.
@baldur The comment about Apple needing some kind of response to Electron seems on the money. I still prefer native apps though.
@tmj It seems possible, though, that Marzipan apps will crowd native apps out even further and feel just about as native on macOS as Electron.
@baldur Which would be a shame, but would that be better or worse than no answer to Electron? At least one can hope Apple improves things in future iterations.
@tmj Bringing over iOS apps to macOS hastens the demise of native apps as writing one app for both iOS and macOS will be much more compelling for Swift/Objective-C devs than just making a macOS app.
OTOH, if they wanted to react to Electron in a way that improved macOS as a desktop OS, they could have adopted a two-pronged strategy:
Bringing iOS apps to macOS is only the right response to Electron if your primary focus is iOS and macOS is only a secondary concern.
(IMHO, and all that.)
@baldur If one can assume all (many? most?) devs want to have their apps on both Mac OS and iOS then I think you make a lot of sense. And while I can think of genres that’s true for (games, text editing), I don’t think it’s true across the board. That said, I like the sound of number one. I hope someone at Apple is thinking along those lines.