Marzipan: What you need to know about the rumored new XKitApple is reportedly working on a new, cross-platform iOS and macOS development framework... but we likely won't see it until WWDC 2019.
Apple has a problem. The teams working on its apps increasingly have to develop and maintain features across iOS and macOS. Sometimes that causes work to go more slowly than anybody would like. Sometimes it causes a lack of feature parity that nobody likes.
That problem is echoed throughout the third-party developer community as well. It results in fewer Mac apps with fewer features updated less often. Or not at all.
So, what to do? The answer, it seems, may be 'Marzipan'.
April 30, 2018: 'Marzipan' isn't 'Marzipan', but it's coming 2019... as part of a new UI
John Gruber, writing for Daring Fireball:
There is indeed an active cross-platform UI project at Apple for iOS and MacOS. It may have been codenamed "Marzipan" at one point, but if so only in its earliest days.
I just assumed Marzipan was the name for one of the candidates for this p...
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Marzipan: What you need to know about the rumored new XKit
