>IMO, the most interesting thing happening with Apple right now is the surprising (to me) amount of effort being put into their News and Stock apps (which are being ported to macOS).
I think you missed the hidden story there (and by 'hidden' I mean, they actually mentioned it during the keynote). They announced that they're working on a toolkit to easily port over iOS apps into MacOS with very few manual changes to the code.
The effort they're putting into porting News, Stocks, etc. into MacOS is actually just them field-testing their UIKit <-> AppKit conversion platform.
I get that these were good apps for them to test out their new UIKit thing on, but that's not all that I'm talking about. They're devoting time at keynotes to their News app. And they're clearly putting time into courting content partners. That's what surprising to me; the totality of their effort in this area.
I think you missed the hidden story there (and by 'hidden' I mean, they actually mentioned it during the keynote). They announced that they're working on a toolkit to easily port over iOS apps into MacOS with very few manual changes to the code.
The effort they're putting into porting News, Stocks, etc. into MacOS is actually just them field-testing their UIKit <-> AppKit conversion platform.