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This is a great post about why you should target iOS and macOS features specifically. But it misses the point,

> we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen.

Yes, that's what (you and) Apple want. But what developers really want is a simple cross platform framework to target all OSes and the widest user base possible with the least effort.

These applications can then enable custom features on macOS where they get a better experience if they have a need for that.

Remember OpenStep? Yellowbox? We want those tools; right now the web is an ok standin, and until there is something better, developers will keep demanding these features. It's about targeting the widest user base possible, not about making a single platform the most successful.

>>blueje+(OP)
Cool so then it just comes down to leverage. Developers who wants this have almost none and Apple has all of it. As a user who mostly doesn't care about the trials and tribulations that developers go through, my interests are aligned with Apple's.

As long as Apple continues to sell more product that dynamic isn't going to change.

>>IBM+p1
> Cool so then it just comes down to leverage. Developers who wants this have almost none and Apple has all of it.

You are definitely right that Apple has a lot of leverage for now. I love my Apple products, as a user I have no intention of switching away from them (I stuck with them through their worst period, '96 - '00, because I was so excited for the coming of Unix). Again as a user I want them to succeed because I love the products.

As a developer though, I want my favorite tools and languages available. And I want to spend the least effort in targeting users...