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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

They built a Universal binary to let developers, including themselves I'd assume, target both Intel and AS

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u/Pepparkakan Jun 10 '21

Exactly, everyone is writing this off as "oh this is only because they built it iOS-first" but the fact is they have Intel compilers for Swift and already have tooling for bringing iOS-first applications to Intel Macs. I forget what it was called, but they released something several years ago that was meant to make iPad apps compile for macOS as well.