Why? Has anyone asked for this?
I want my desktop apps to be dense and feature rich professional applications. My phone apps are relatively simple tools.
I don’t understand why.
I want my desktop apps to be dense and feature rich professional applications. My phone apps are relatively simple tools.
I don’t understand why.
I ask my iPad apps to be as dense and powerful as my desktop apps. In particular, the screen sizes are mostly similar now, processing power is on the same ballpark, and if anything the iPad has more potential than the laptop from a design perspective.
So macOS <-> iPad parity.
Then there's no technical reason to not have iPhone <-> iPad parity.
You end up with the chain desktop <-> iPad <-> iPhone
I am asking for this.
>I want my desktop apps to be dense and feature rich professional applications. My phone apps are relatively simple tools.
No reason not to share the same codebase, with extra tools and UI widgets shown depending on whether they run on Mac or iDevices.
Means more apps for Mac and more apps for iOS. And not with the crappy Electron wrappers.
It likely is more of a win for desktop devs as they'll presumably have an easier way to get their apps to iOS, or perhaps for game devs to have fewer requirements to port games.
There has probably been a decline in companies wanting to bother expending the effort to produce a separate AppKit version of their application solely to be able to target macOS.
If an AppKit version is off the table, then between:
- No app
- A web app
- An Electron app
- A Marzipan app
The Marzipan paradigm suddenly seems more appealing to Apple and Cocoa-faithful end users.
I still have no idea why. Just because you can bang a nail in with a screwdriver, it doesn't mean you should when you've got a perfectly good hammer.
A lot of times I want to do something and it feels like the apps are holding me back just for the sake of being excessively simple. I've had this feeling on both Android and iOS
Or sometimes I'm on the go, with no tablet or computer and I still want to do something advanced, even if the phone screen is small.
Besides there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to hook up my phone to an external display/mouse and get a full desktop experience. (Samsung is ahead of the pack in this, but the apps are still "mobile" versions that are not as fully fledged as their desktop counterparts)