One thing I’m curious about this is that if the upcoming Apple Silicon macs can install iOS apps
I mean they already showed Big Sur running native iOS code in the WWDC keynote. That’s proof enough for me. My guess is that they won’t just bring over all iOS apps to run on macOS but instead they’ll let developers decide if they want their iOS apps available on macOS. Why do I think this?:
- They’ve already adopted this approach for Catalyst apps
- Apple doesn’t want iOS apps to be running on macOS without any change because it will be a bad user experience. Instead I think they want to offer developers a few options, 1)Don’t port to macOS at all, 2)Run an iOS app natively with minimal code to optimize the UI for macOS, 3)Run an iOS app natively with full UI integration thru Catalyst. (Catalyst isn’t their yet, but I definitely think this is their goal long-term.)