Microsoft never stopped their convergence trials, 9 hardware generations, 4 software generations.
Indeed. But 8 and 8.1 were so bad, they had to drastically revise the UI.
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Never knew a human being that liked the Win8.x series. That was the result of someone thinking in “clickable and/or live squares” due to the defunct Windows Phone UI and convergence of both.
No, lets hope that it does, so that we get to keep desktop broadly as it is. Last thing I want is no Macs except iMacs, with a touchscreen and no mouse or keyboard.
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iOS for Mac would behave very much like macOS, including mouse and keyboard. Actually, Ventura already runs iOS apps. Without touch.
AFAIK Xojo is one of the apps prohibited from MAS, like App Wrapper, Sleep Aid, Permissions Reset.
I can’t find that meme now, but it’s an old guy saying “I made $100 on the App Store”, next frame “Time to pay their their $100 annual fee”.
Like I mentioned before, 56% of Mac users check MAS for new apps, all 15 of them a month! But it also doesn’t mean that they’ll see your app. Apps are hidden by default, sometimes not even appearing in search, when you search by name, until they’ve had a number of downloads, which you have to make happen, and that’s new customers. People updating don’t count. I had an app get 25k downloads in a couple of days, but it stayed off the download charts. Reason being is that they were existing customers.
How you access Apple’s frameworks isn’t always the cause of problems. Plenty of times, it what you use from those frameworks that’s the problem. The more you rely on Apple’s frameworks to do things, the more you run the risk of having a broken app, once or twice a year.
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One thing people often overlook is that iOS and Mac markets traditionally serve a very different purpose. iOS caters predominantly to consumers who want to be entertained (games, music, movies, and some creative stuff, such as drawing doodles, etc.) However, Macs tend to attract professionals who like to produce stuff. They write software, build websites, perform day-to-day business operations (office productivity), professional designers, etc. There is a big difference between the two!
I understand what Apple is trying to do by putting all of their devices on one platform. It makes development a lot easier from their perspective. Yet, I suspect that they are starting to lose grasp of what their professionals want, and most of them don’t want their computers or the software apps they rely upon being downgraded into a “game boy” experience.
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Least of us developers. However, as long as their macOS behaves as expected, it should not be an issue.