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I have a theory that they’re not actually intending to make it more touch friendly but rather they are trying to unify the interfaces between MacOS and iPadOS for when iPadOS supersedes MacOS. Slowly boiling the frog, so you don’t notice when they move iPadOS to the desktop.

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It’s almost this but less extreme. They’re trying to unify the interfaces because they want to return to offering one app platform that isn’t sharply split.

iOS started as an OS X variant with special consideration for touch, but forked Cocoa. The unification that’s happening now isn’t about bringing iOS to Macs, it’s about merging Cocoa-next back into upstream.

I could see that. The reason I think it could be more extreme is the AppStore. I don’t have stats to back this up, but I would assume they make far more money from the iOS/iPadOs AppStore than Mac AppStore. It never truly caught on with the Mac, likely due to the long history of loading your own apps. Apple would love nothing more than to break this cycle.

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