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Keep hearing people talk about how this technology is about porting iPad apps to the Mac, personally I don't see that as why they're doing this at all. Today t
by whywhywhywhy 8y ago
Keep hearing people talk about how this technology is about porting iPad apps to the Mac, personally I don't see that as why they're doing this at all.
Today the Mac has a very healthy ecosystem of professional apps, however the same can't be said for the Pro iPad range, which despite a handful of admittedly very good outliers (Procreate, etc) it's very lacking in apps for all professional workflows.
I don't see Marzipan existing to bring those few iPad apps to the Mac, it exists to remove the excuses for Mac developers to only build for OS X.
- Pulcinella 8y agoExcept Marzipan is about UIKit on the Mac so it will definitely be easier to port an iPad app to the Mac that it would be to port a Mac Appkit app to the iPad.
- bobbylarrybobby 8y agoThat said, a developer now has fewer hurdles in developing an iOS version of their app because if they rewrite it in Marzipan, they can continue to develop their macOS and iOS apps in parallel, and they can just drop support for the pre-Marzipan macOS version of the app.
- robbyt 8y agoI predict they're doing this so they can start porting xcode to marzipan, and eventually kill Mac OS.