Marco Arment

If there was some kind of app...

If there was a social media app that didn't have a native Mac version, maybe I would use that.

But I vastly prefer to just have, like, you know, ivory on Mac as opposed to, you know, iPhone mirroring ivory on my phone or something like that.

But, like, that's where I'd be using it.

Like you said, it's gap-filling.

This isn't available on the Mac.

And using it... Using the iPad version, you know, or the phone version mirrored is better than nothing.

And there are apps where that is true.

Status Board totally would have been the case before I had the web version.

So...

Yeah, and developers not opting into it, it's like, you know, there's a million incentives for them not to do it, and Apple didn't really make it attractive for them to do it.

Like, there were plenty of sticks and not a lot of carrots for doing that, and so I don't really blame developers for not checking that box, but, you know, it is what it is.

And this is the argument for, like...

These are separate platforms with separate strengths, and being able to use any app anywhere is convenient, but it doesn't suddenly make the platforms the same.

They're just not.

Fundamentally, one is a touch-based thing that you carry around with you, and one uses a much more precise pointer on bigger screens and yada yada.

Those differences will never go away.

If there was a grand unification and there was one Apple OS, those platform differences would still exist.

And that one Apple OS would have to handle those platform differences.

One Apple OS can't be like, oh, it's a big phone everywhere.