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> modern Apple basically wants macOS to go away and sees it as more of an annoyance, so they don't spend any time tuning it

[citation needed]

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Oh, the leadership keeps saying that MacOS is separate from iOS and they care about MacOS.

And then they keep adding iOS UIs into MacOS, produce horrible laggy iOS-optimised software for it, and call it a day.

Actions speak louder than words.

Doesn't mean they want macOS to go away though. Merging code-bases is a bad thing now?

They are not just "merging codebases". They are literally letting it stagnate in all the parts that matter, and all the user-facing parts are iOSified, or literally delegated to iOS with "you can run iOS programs directly now".

And yes. Merging codebases is a bad thing when it's done without any care for one of the paradigms. The one that they don't like, don't understand, and want to go away.

What sort of citation would you be looking for here? It's generally accepted that it's not a priority for them, the discrepencies in performance and features between UIKit vs AppKit have always existed and are even more pronounced in SwiftUI. Due to how it's used they can't apply the same business model to the mac as they can iOS and therefore can't extract as much value from it, this is reflected in revenue.

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