Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:20AM from the coming-next dept.

Apple's push for performance and security improvements over new features will also apply to this year's Mac software, Axios reported on Wednesday, but one key feature remains on the roadmap for 2018: The ability for Macs to run iPad apps. From the report: On the Mac side, this is taking the form of a new project around security as well as improvements in performance when waking and unlocking the system. While users would certainly welcome changes that make their systems run better and more securely, customers tend to be more motivated to make purchases based on new features rather than promised improvements around security or performance, which can be tough to judge. The signature new feature for the Mac -- the ability to run iPad apps -- is a significant undertaking that adds a high degree of complexity to this year's OS release.

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They are doing no such thing by Andreas+Mayer · 2018-01-31 11:26 · Score: 4, Informative

What Apple might bring, is the ability to create an application that runs on either device. But that application will have to be developed to explicitly support both, macOS and iOS devices. It will have to be able to handle a UI with either mouse or touch.
In essence, there will be one entry in the App Store and if you download the app you'll get the variant suitable for your device.
A Mac will not be able to just run any old iPad app.
Source ... well, just ask anyone with a clue about macOS/iOS development.