Planning to offer universal applications that Apple can run on iOS or macOS

By creating an App Store on the application distribution platform, Apple has succeeded in building a "place" to easily provide sophisticated applications for iPhone and iPad to users. On the other hand, we offer "Mac App Store" for Mac, but it is hard to say that it has the same success as the App Store. Not all users are installing applications via the Mac App Store, and Zara has no way to update applications delivered by developers in any way. In order to further activate the Mac App Store under such circumstances, Apple has developed applications to be provided on iPhone, iPad, and MacUniversal applicationBloomberg reports that it plans to convert it.

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The universal application of applications by Apple is expected to begin in 2018. Along with that, developers will be able to design one application to work not only with the touchscreen but also with the mouse and trackpad, the person who provided the information to Bloomberg says.

At this time, developers need to separately design iOS applications and macOS applications. However, if the application is a universal application, it will be possible to distribute it to two platforms just by creating one application, which dramatically reduces the necessary work process. In addition, it was also pointed out that some of the applications for macOS will not be updated in a short time. For example, the Twitter application for iOS regularly updates and improves functions and fixes security, but it was regarded as a problem that the Twitter application for macOS was not updated at all. However, as universal applications make it possible to provide a single application for any iPhone, iPad, Mac terminal, giving developers the opportunity to reduce development costs and increase revenue, You will be able to use apps that are constantly updated.

byWilliam Iven

About application universal application, "It will be the biggest change for Apple's software platform since the introduction of iOS," said Steven Trauton, a developer who developed applications for Apple devices for many years Mr. Smith.

According to source sources, Apple is planning to install universal application as part of iOS and macOS update. The universal application plan is being promoted as a secret project called code name "Marzipan", it will start full scale in early 2018 and is expected to be released in WWDC which is a summer meeting for developers. However, according to information sources, the plan is still fluctuating, suggesting the possibility that the implementation time will change and the project will be disrupted.

In Microsoft's Windows 10, even for smartphone, Xbox One, IoT, etc., so that the application of Windows 10 moves as it is "One Windows"Platform initiative has been launched, Google'sAndroid applications can also run on Chrome OSAs you can see, the flow of universal application has already occurred in other operating systems.

byThomas William

It is unknown whether there is a plan to integrate macOS and iOS along with universal application, but for several years Apple has developed its own processor for iPhone,iMac ProWe have also introduced our own "T2" chip. If universal application is also started, the two OS's of iOS and macOS will be lost further, but Apple's CEO Tim Cook said in the past that 'the experience will decline if iOS and macOS are integratedAssertionAnd Craig Federigi, who is responsible for software, also truncates the integration of iOS and macOS as "compromise", so it is unlikely that the OS itself will be integrated.

Apple has refused comments on this matter.