“It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy,” Craig Hockenberry writes via Iconfactory. “Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some apps in Mojave used the new technology and that was about it.”
“Thanks to the hard work of Steve Troughton-Smith, we have a much clearer view of what’s happening behind the scenes with application architecture and available APIs,” Hockenberry writes. “It’s likely that getting your iOS app to run on a Mac will just be a matter of flipping a switch in Xcode. Steve Troughton-Smith has been converting apps using nothing more than a Simulator build, his marzipanify tool, and a lot of clever tweaks with frameworks.”
“It will be exciting for a lot of developers, including yours truly, to press that button. But it’s also important to temper this enthusiasm with reality: that build setting is just the first step on a long and complicated road,” Hockenberry writes. “Good interaction doesn’t come for free.”
Tons more in the full article – highly recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, get ready for some growing pains that run the gamut all the way up to severe from non-Mac developers bringing their wares to the Mac for the first time. But, this’ll be fun – we promise! The Mac is all about experimenting and trying new things and, anyway, over time, it’ll all shake out and we’ll be back to quality apps that look, act and work as longtime Mac users expect.
We love it when our old predictions begin to come true! Miracles do happen:
Think code convergence (more so than today) with UI modifications per device. A unified underlying codebase for Intel, Apple A-series, and, in Apple’s labs, likely other chips, too (just in case). This would allow for a single App Store for Mac, iPhone, and iPad users that features a mix of apps: Some that are touch-only, some that are Mac-only, and some that are universal (can run on both traditional notebooks and desktops as well as on multi-touch computers like iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and – pretty please, Apple – Apple TV). Don’t be surprised to see Apple A-series-powered Macs, either. — MacDailyNews Take, January 9, 2014
SEE ALSO:
Apple’s Project Marzipan could mean big things for the future of the Macintosh – February 20, 2019
Apple’s Project Marzipan targeted to combine iPhone, iPad and Mac apps by 2021 – February 20, 2019
An enterprise take on Apple’s ‘Project Marzipan’ – January 11, 2019
Apple’s initial macOS Mojave Marzipan apps are ugly ducklings – September 25, 2018
Marzipan in Mojave: Porting developer iOS apps to macOS – June 13, 2018
iOS – macOS: What Apple’s ‘No’ actually means – June 11, 2018
Craig Federighi doesn’t see a touchscreen Mac in the future – June 6, 2018
Apple’s Craig Federighi details how iOS apps will run on Macs – June 5, 2018
How Apple might approach an ARM-based Mac – May 30, 2018
Will the 2019 Mac Pro be powered by an Apple ARM-based chip? – April 6, 2018
Project Marzipan: Can Apple succeed where Microsoft failed? – December 21, 2017
Apple is working to unite iOS and macOS; will they standardize their chip platform next? – December 21, 2017
Why Apple would want to unify iOS and Mac apps in 2018 – December 20, 2017
Apple to provide tool for developers build cross-platform apps that run on iOS and macOS in 2018 – December 20, 2017
The once and future OS for Apple – December 8, 2017
Apple, a semiconductor superpower in the making, looks to build their own ARM-based processors for Macs – September 29, 2017
On the future of Apple’s Macintosh – February 6, 2017
Apple’s Craig Federighi explains why there is no touchscreen Mac – November 1, 2016
Cool! Excellent and awesome! This will shut haters like AppleCynic and shiityzen x right up!
Except those losers won’t shut up, they will keep posting their hatred.
Sounds like Java reborn, but Apple only.
only without the insecurities and bloat, anyway this is for apple operating systems fer goddsakes!
go elsewhere if you want apple to code apps
for windoze
How about coding for everyone, not Apple, anyone else.
And why should they be expected to do that? You either buy into their concept or not, mediocrity for the sake of some nebulous alternative concept of ‘universality’ is not a real choice at all, especially when those who call for it will only find other reasons not to buy into it. It’s a pointless task chasing after them it just gets political where the tribal attitudes predominate as you demonstrate so well.
For the user, and the developer, choice is good.
“[O]nly without the insecurities and bloat, anyway this is for apple operating systems fer [sic] goddsakes [sic]!”
Java did not start out with the “insecurities” or “bloat”. Neither did FORTRAN, COBOL, or even C. They all evolve and add things developers want, which cause unintentional consequences in the compiled and linked code. It is almost certain that this compiler/cross compiler using variants of Swift will be no different 10+ years from now.
Apple’s WWDC will be declared as boring and well-behind the rest of the industry. They’ll mention how Windows already runs on ARM processors and has for years. I can assure you that whatever Apple announces will be met with yawns and said not to be meeting expectations.
I’m an end-user so the WWDC isn’t something I’m all that interested in. I doubt Apple will be able to announce some game-changing tech but that doesn’t happen very much, anyway. I’m mostly interested in Apple making decent, long-lasting hardware products, that if necessary, can be upgraded and easily repaired.
I wouldn’t mind being able to run iOS apps on a desktop Mac, but it’s not something I really need. It might be kind of cool to run OSX on an iPad Pro but that’s also not something that I need to do.
So you can’t see your own hypocrisy in hating haters? It gave me a little chuckle. 🙂
I have a great 27″ iMac running Yosemite. Unfortunately, I won’t be upgrading unless they change baby-Pages back into a real word processor.
Trade your Mac in for a Chromebook, it suits your IQ better
What a wonderful demonstration of IQ that reply is. Totally uncalled for as well.
Hmmmm, the name Marzipan.
When I worked for BMW North America, my boss who was from Germany, went home for a vacation and when he came back, he brought me what he assured me was a wonderful treat called marzipan. Honestly I had never heard of it. I unwrapped a piece and took a bite, thought it was pos
sibly a potato or something, no particular taste of any sort.
I looked it up and found the definition was “A sweet, yellowish paste of ground almonds, sugar, and egg whites”
I pretended that it was wonderful and that was the end of that.
So does that mean that Marzipan will be some sort of bland blending of operating systems, or just a hipster attempt to provide an air of sophistication by using a word that the average person neither knows or cares about? “only us cool people know what it means”
I dont’ care what the silly label reads, just don’t mess up or water down OSX.
sorry about that accidental space, my finger must have hovered over or accidentally brushed the side of, or “gestured” at some key of a Macbook Pro, which I love except for the keyboard, and dongle hell.
Agreed the keyboard is a piece of shit
I’m really happy to read elsewhere that AppleScript will work in Marzipan apps. AppleScript is one of the most underrated, most productivity-boosting features of macOS.
In the meantime, the update e on the next Mac Pro is ….