Get your iOS apps running on macOS, and slowly move them to native macOS paradigms. I'm fairly sure Marzipan is a stopgap, not a platform unto itself. Yes, I suppose things will change with the next version of macOS, but there's no real way to avoid the fact that UIKit on macOS doesn't make proper macOS apps - and developers will have to decide what matters more time to market or customer satisfaction. Their non-nativeness screams out: they don't respond properly to gestures, many macOS Services don't work in them, and the user interfaces are laggy. The few apps that Apple has given us are. I suppose that the Marzipan project, of iOS frameworks on macOS, should prove me wrong but I still don't think so. They don't target the lowest common denominator. Apple's been against that sort of thing for a long time, and I don't see that changing any time soon. > which you have to imagine is something Apple wants in the years ahead as platforms converge on common software stack and UX
They have automated updates but its hard to trust that process won't result in issues when documents are open, and it presents a lot of cognitive load to users on top of the OS & App Store updates. When I visit my parents, they're almost always several versions behind, and as another commenter pointed out, a decent part of that is the autoupdate needing to update itself. Right now Microsoft's autoupdate UX is pretty terrible at keeping things up to date. Seems like a good play from both Apple & Microsoft's perspective. Aside from update UX this is obviously a way to bump their Mac Office numbers. This is a positive shift for them, since being on the App Store means features ship faster and users see value in their Office subscription.
I think the issue finally reached a breaking point there and they shifted to UX > control. Coupled with the poor autoupdate UX on Mac, and it's almost like Microsoft doesn't want you to have Office on Mac. You have to log in to your Live account, then go to a particular page to manage your existing Office installs that is super confusing. Have you tried to download Office from their website? It's a horrible, braindead experience. It's also a signal that the App Store team may now be willing to do the deals necessary to attract MacOS apps back toward this larger strategic initiative (vs just trying to maximize revenue).įrom Microsoft's perspective, now that Windows is sidelined, Office is their primary consumer platform and that means UX outweighs any strategic tax of trying to make the Windows version better. I see this potentially as groundwork for the eventual integration of Mac and iOS App Stores, which you have to imagine is something Apple wants in the years ahead as platforms converge on common software stack and UX.
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