Last night the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), officially admitted that he has a project that will not lead to the combination of iOS and macOS, but that will lead to the development of universal applications for the two platforms. Apple said it is working on a project that will allow iOS app developers to make their apps compatible with Macs, whether they want to write code for it themselves or benefit from an automated conversion.
Apple emphasizes that this is not a first step towards the unification of the two platforms, but only an idea to improve the user experience of Macs and bring applications that would not normally be available. Apple has been working on this project for some time, it came to the attention of the public thanks to recent rumors regarding its existence, and although it was said that it could be officially launched this year, it is still far from being completed.
Apple Talks About Porting iOS Apps to Mac
Apple says that only at WWDC 2019 is it expected that the platform will be officially presented to developers, and this is because there is still a lot of work until the programs that allow their development can be offered. Everything will be exactly the same as before, that is, the applications will be sent to Apple in the same way, the control by the developers will be done in the same way, the big change is only in the support that will be offered for Macs.
"It's still macOS, you still have the Terminal, you can still attach four monitors to it, you can still hook up external drives. na lot of our core APIs, things like Metal, we've done the hard work over the years of making them run well on both Mac and its associated CPUs and GPUs, and on iOS. We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are resting on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do."
This project may still be a first step that Apple takes to launch a MacBook equipped with an ARM processor, recent rumors say that this will happen very soon. Of course, we will find out more only next year, but the public confirmation of the fact that the project exists will put an end to many speculations about its purpose, but also about the future of iOS and macOS, as separate platforms, as Apple wants.
