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Like on the Mac, it's a huge surface area, way bigger than software UI has to cover on iOS.

Um,

But because it is lower priority in Apple, because it's not as big of a business, it gets fewer resources.

So it ends up getting fewer resources at a lower priority to solve what is often more complicated UI problems.

So as a result, Mac UI redesigns in the modern Apple era tend to be half-assed, incomplete, and not that great.

Again, also, those dynamics aren't going to change.

The Mac is not going to get a ton of UI design resources from Apple if iOS needs them first.

And iOS will always need them first.

And I think the whole idea that we need to unify everything about these platforms, not only I think is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, and I think it's misapplied in tons of ways because they're different platforms.

They work very differently.

They're used very differently in different contexts by different people.

So I think the idea that everything has to match between the platforms is like, I mean, look, the entire tech business is,

has tried this in so many ways.

The whole write once, run anywhere principle.

We've tried this so many times at so many levels, and it's either incredibly difficult or doesn't work every single time.

And so I think the reality of the Mac is that it will always be second priority in Apple compared to iOS in terms of software design resources and everything.

It's always going to be a lower priority.

It's always going to be more complicated in terms of what it has to cover.

So I think what leadership should consider doing is scaling back the assumption that everything has to be done in unity with the Mac.

And that applies to lots of things.