Apple’s Design Delirium

I think it’s important to bear in mind that we don’t know what they’re doing. The Mac hasn’t received as much attention lately as iOS, and its arguably much nicer to develop for iOS than the Mac. Combine that with the fact that the Mac store sort of sucks and is probably built on top of NS WebObjects or something, and we start to get an idea of why Apple is beginning to pay more attention to macOS.

My hope is that they’re improving the built in SDks to get closer to api parity with iOS. Also, hopefully they’re changing the application life cycle to be the same as iOS. Were these two things in place then an app in iOS (in bitcode) could be run on x86 theoretically. Although I too hope that’s not the reason why they’re doing it.

Basically, we don’t know what Apple is doing, macos isn’t as nice to develop for as iOS, and hopefully Apple is thinking it’s time to give more attention to that in the future, so they can attract future developers and draw them to the Mac. Swift is an incredible language to learn programming on.