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Re:MacOS Marzipan by carlesfe on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:34AM (#18091634)
Fair point. However, we already have an influx of cheap, low-quality web apps ported to Mac via Electron.

I think in this case Marzipan is a better solution, as it will allow willing developers to port native iOS apps to the Mac without much effort.

It won't help with webapp juggernauts like Slack or Skype, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.

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Re:MacOS Marzipan by teknologist on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:48AM (#18092358)
I actually wouldn't mind having the iOS Skype app running on my Mac. It has a nice dark mode.
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Re:MacOS Marzipan by saagarjha on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:50AM (#18092372)
So would the old Skype desktop app, had they kept it around and linked it against a recent SDK. But no, they threw it out, replaced it with some sort of Electron mess, and now have to pay the price of not having proper dark mode support.
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