From Six Colors:
One major advantage of this, as Gurman says, is that it would
potentially help breathe new life into the Mac App Store, which has
never seen quite the same level of success as its iOS counterpart.
Developers would still have to deploy a custom Mac UI optimized for
trackpad and keyboard rather than iOS's direct touch interaction,
but much of the code could then be written once for both iOS and Mac
apps.
Of course-and here I'm diverging into my own speculation-if Apple
decided it wanted to create a direct-touch interface on the Mac,
this would help that along as well. If apps already contain UIs that
are optimized for touch, that could make it easier to bring touch
capabilities to the rest of the Mac. It would still require some
pretty large shakeups to adapt the rest of the macOS to a touch
interface, but it could point the way towards [1]a future unified
platform.
[2]One App platform to rule them all
While this speculation may come to pass, my hope is that it encourages
developers to improve (and in some cases implement) better keyboard
support in apps.
If this helps Apple come up with pointing device support like the
trackpad (or mouse), that would be huge for professionals. I think this
is a highly unlikely outcome, but one can hope.
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My original entry is here: [3]Improving iOS keyboard support, maybe?.
It posted Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:58:23 +0000.
Filed under: tech,
References
1.
https://www.macworld.com/article/3240988/operating-systems/the-once-and-future-os-for-apple.html
2.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/12/one-app-platform-to-rule-them-all/
3.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=770
