Re:What to Expect from Marzipan
by coldtea on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:30AM
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>So Apple is trying what Microsoft did years ago: Platform convergence.
Mostly API convergence. Which they have been doing for years now (adding UIKit parity to OS X), Marzipan is just the latest and more encompassing version.
>It's quite ironic because as far as I remember, Apple used to have a strong stance against that, showing e.g. by the fact that Macbooks never come with touch screens.
And they still consider those two as different use cases, better served with different UIs.
Marzipan is not about sharing the UI paradigms -- its about making it easier to port common code.
Mostly API convergence. Which they have been doing for years now (adding UIKit parity to OS X), Marzipan is just the latest and more encompassing version.
>It's quite ironic because as far as I remember, Apple used to have a strong stance against that, showing e.g. by the fact that Macbooks never come with touch screens.
And they still consider those two as different use cases, better served with different UIs.
Marzipan is not about sharing the UI paradigms -- its about making it easier to port common code.