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I think we'll also see an influx of great Mac apps as lots of engineering talent is currently trained to use UIKit (iOS).

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Agreed, and also encourage development of desktop counterparts to popular mobile apps - if you can keep the vast majority of your business logic and middle-layers (and largely just have to implement new UI), that's a huge load off of dev teams.

I'm thinking things like a FB Messenger desktop app - certainly a lot easier to implement.

And hopefully even move some players away from the ever-popular not-quite-native desktop apps (looking at you, Slack and Spotify) towards more actually-native UIs.

> And hopefully even move some players away from the ever-popular not-quite-native desktop apps (looking at you, Slack and Spotify) towards more actually-native UIs.

That’s the dream, but I’m not optimistic. More than likely they’ll just add another target to their Electron/React app and call it a day.

Spotify on iOS isn't native either, isn't it?

Off topic, but there is a native app for FB Messenger available: https://fbmacmessenger.rsms.me/ . It’s great!

""Native""

True, I didn't realize it was a fancy wrapper.

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