Back in 2017, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple was working on a bold new software initiative dubbed ‘Project Marzipan’, which is aimed at more thoroughly integrating the iOS mobile and macOS desktop operating systems by allowing users to run their apps across both platforms.
It is, of course, a novel and innovative concept that iOS apps would be able to run on macOS devices, and vice versa. It was rumored, at the time, that this game-changing functionality would debut alongside iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 this year.
Apparently that won’t be the case, however, as a blog post from Apple journalist John Gruber of Daring Fireball suggested earlier this month. Apple may need more time to work out the fine details of how certain apps can run most efficiently across platforms.
Gruber suggested that Apple will instead release the fruits of Project Marzipan alongside a much broader, system-wide refresh of the iOS interface as part of 2019’s iOS 13 update.
It’s still likely, as the company has done so incrementally over the years, that Apple will introduce more subtle features to further integrate iOS and macOS from a systemic vantage point in 2018. Though what those features may or may not entail remains to be seen, luckily we’ve only a few weeks to go until we find out.
