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What? The Apple Music desktop app is native, built with Catalyst (and is awful despite that)
by brundolf 5y ago
What? The Apple Music desktop app is native, built with Catalyst (and is awful despite that)
- dboreham 5y agoPerhaps Amazon Music app?
- askonomm 5y agoNative and yet still sucks. Most catalyst apps suck.
- Zelphyr 5y agoIf I'm wrong I'll stand corrected but, it behaves way too much like a web app to not at least be making heavy use of WKWebView.
- brundolf 5y agoWhat does "behaves too much like a web app" even mean in this context?
- jdminhbg 5y agoIf you go to something like the For You screen, you will see a pause while the content is loaded remotely. And if you hit Command-R, it will reload, like a web page. I think the other commenters are right that Music.app is written as a native macOS app, but it definitely leans heavily on web views for content, especially in the streaming parts of the app.
- dmitriid 5y agoLike it's broken beyond all recognition and hope with all interactions and expectations of a native app just gone. See this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU
- marcellus23 5y agoIt is not built with Catalyst. Podcasts is, but Music is not. And presumably he's referring to the webview-based parts of Apple Music, i.e. the browsing piece of it. The native parts of the app (library browsing and management) work very well in my experience.