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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


Basically an Electron for OSX is pretty neat.


It’s more like Wine. Real native runtime libraries interacting an app API to a different underlying OS.


The underlying OS is extremely similar (they're both Darwin and they share the Core * frameworks). And unlike Wine, they won't be running unmodified binaries.


Well, it's closer to winelib [1], which is an integral part of Wine.

[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide#What_is_Winel...


It's not like any of those things. Its all the same technology just a slightly different API to access it.


This isn’t Electron. It’s fully native with no web component intermediate.




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