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aletoday at 2:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

Besides the new form factor, resizable apps are also meant to further bridge the gap between macOS and iOS right?


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cosmic_cheesetoday at 3:17 PM

More than that, it forces iPhone-only devs to get with the program and make their apps usable on larger screens too.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if next year they dissolve the iPhone/iPad distinction on the App Store altogether and maybe even remove the Catalyst toggle on the Mac App Store. If you make an iOS app, it’s also a full fledged iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS app too.

I certainly wouldn’t mind. On my Mac there are some needlessly heavy electron apps I’d swap out for their iOS counterparts in a heartbeat if that were possible, as well as some games that would run fine on macOS but their devs don’t tick the checkbox for unclear reasons.

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nozzlegeartoday at 3:12 PM

I'd guess that they're meant to bridge the gap between iOS and iPadOS, if anything.