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Marzipan
- dfabulich 8y ago> Marzipan apps are ugly ducklings. As soon as you use them, you can just know these are not at one with the system. You detect that there’s a translation layer of some kind at work here, just like when you use Slack on the Mac you instinctively feel that it’s a web app in a thin wrapper. The underlying implementation is exposed to the user with a bevy of performance sluggishness, UI quirks and non-standard behaviours. That’s bad. A thoughtful critique, including screenshots and interaction details.
- sandbags 8y agoI'm still trying to grapple with the point of this thing. Does Apple have so few macOS developers that they couldn't have written a native news app? What are the iOS apps people are so desperate for on macOS that the developers refuse to port? Unless AppKit is going away, I feel like I am missing something.
- pvg 8y agoI don't think it's about the News app, the technology gives Apple an easier way to ensure the Mac has a sort of 'feature parity' with iOS devices. Apple's own goals seem to be the primary driver.