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Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by dewey »

jumelles wrote: post #6

I'm continually amazed at how much Apple hypes up the most pointless, useless, basic things. This is a new version of a major operating system, and we get... the desktop organized by filetype. A built-in stock application. How is an App Store update considered part of an OS update?

Have you seen the part where you can easily port iOS apps to macOS that was probably in the making for a few years? That's pretty huge for a developer conference.

Changes to the app store to make discovery easier and feature more developer stories also have a huge impact on Mac/iOS developers and their revenue.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by janlukacs »

WWDC 2018, from underwhelming to boring. I will lose my mind if i hear *oji one more time. Will they ever stop with this nonsense? Favicons in Safari? It took them 6 years for the browser to remember the zoom setting per site, now we have the luxury of having favicons.

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Post by dangoor »

callumprentice wrote: post #5

Interesting note at the end about News, Stocks, Voice Memos in that they were "ported" from iOS versions with "some minor code changes". If that's the whole story, it would be pretty nice to be able to make apps that work on both platforms with only a few source differences.

They said they'd be releasing that tech to other developers next year, I believe

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by pvg »

jumelles wrote: post #6

I'm continually amazed at how much Apple hypes up the most pointless, useless, basic things. This is a new version of a major operating system, and we get... the desktop organized by filetype. A built-in stock application. How is an App Store update considered part of an OS update?

When they add big features, people complain they haven't spent enough time on stability and performance. The event is every year so they announce something, it's not like they're going to write a new OS annually. Slowing down the release rate of shiny new things is probably a good thing.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by uptown »

jumelles wrote: post #6

I'm continually amazed at how much Apple hypes up the most pointless, useless, basic things. This is a new version of a major operating system, and we get... the desktop organized by filetype. A built-in stock application. How is an App Store update considered part of an OS update?

"A built-in stock application"

This was essentially their sales-pitch demonstrating write-once run-anywhere codebase reducing the effort required to develop an app which can be built to run on both iOS and MacOS hardware.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by nxc18 »

grey-area wrote: post #3

The News, Stocks, Voice Memos and Home apps were brought to Mac using iOS frameworks that have been adapted to macOS. Starting in late 2019, these additional frameworks will make it easier for developers to bring their iOS apps to macOS — providing new opportunities for developers and creating more apps for Mac users to enjoy. Looks like UIKit is the future, despite protestations to the contrary.

Hope significant are the differences between cocoa and uikit? I don't have any experience besides some light source browsing and it seemed the big difference is the NS to UI prefix change. Anyone care to summarize for the unenlightened?
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