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On Marzipan

There's been some   renewed   discussion   about   Marzipan   lately . Everyone seems to agree the Mojave Marzipan apps (Home, News, Stocks, Voice Memos) are a disappointment ,  pretty low quality , do not feel Mac-like . The debate is whether this is a fixable problem with the 1st version of Marzipan, or the canary in the coal mine pointing to a fundamentally flawed approach that threatens to undermine macOS as a platform. We probably won't settle that debate before WWDC. But here's my pov as a user. For context: between me, my wife & the kids, our family uses 3 iPhones, 2 iPads (1 with a keyboard), a MacBook Air, an iMac, an AppleTV, and a Watch. We live most of our "digital life" on these devices. We don't exclusively use 1 device for 1 task - e.g. whether I want to use the iMac or the iPad to do writing depends on whether I'm at home or on the go. If the wife gets the MacBook first, I'll use the iPad and vice-versa. That's the har