Apple plans to merge apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac by 2021

Last year at WWDC, Apple showed us the first taste of its Marzipan project, through which it wants to merge applications for its macOS and iOS operating systems so that they work on both systems. Together with the project, Apple showed us how the News, Stocks, Home and Voice Memos applications work on macOS. A year later, at this year's WWDC, the Californian giant should release the SDK for third-party developers.

For now, Apple will allow developers to convert apps from the iPad. On the iPhone application you according Bloomberg we will wait until 2020. The main obstacle should be the display. This is because it is much smaller than on computers, and Apple is thinking about how to set up applications to cope with much larger displays. However, the apps we've seen so far face a lot of criticism. According to users, they are clunky, they don't have the same controls as traditional Mac apps, and most of the gestures are broken for now. However, control of these applications may also be affected to some extent by iOS 13, which, according to speculation, could bring multitasking to the iPad in the form of displaying two windows of one application (so far, only split screen for two different applications is possible).

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By 2021, Apple would like to provide developers with a package of tools, through which they can create a single application that works on both iOS and macOS. It would therefore not be necessary to port the application in any way, as its code would change itself depending on which operating system it would be using. This package will most likely be introduced by Apple at WWDC this year, with a gradual release as we mentioned above.

However, according to Bloomberg, Apple's plans may change several times and may even be delayed.

Source: 9to5mac

Discussion of the article

[Emeska]

God, just not that! Doesn't Microsoft do something similar?

[DusanK]

And these applications will certainly also have a disgusting and disgusting design like the App Store application in Mojave.

[LOL]

Well, it didn't work out for Apple, it's 2022 and nothing happened and is not happening! OMG late Apple…