Originally published at: Do You Use It? Moderate Usage of iPhone Apps on M-Series Macs - TidBITS
The results of our poll asking readers how often they use iPhone or iPad apps on an Apple silicon Mac show that roughly half don’t do it at all, but the other half appreciate the capability. If you didn’t realize you could do this, give it a try!
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One advantage over the upcoming iPhone mirroring feature is that you can run multiple iOS apps on your Mac at once. You also have the flexibility in screen size noted in the article, and if there’s an iPad version it’s an even better experience. So as much as I’m looking forward to iPhone mirroring (especially for apps that don’t support running on a Mac where a keyboard will be useful), I think the existing feature is a lot more flexible and useful for apps that one uses regularly on the Mac.
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Should have noted more about who was actually voting (i.e. users not on “M-Series” (or knew what that meant) were asked not to vote at all). This would greatly clarify the universe of respondents and any conclusions about the results.
I’ve had Words with Friends installed for a while, but haven’t yet used it because the iPad is more convenient. It would be convenient if I wanted to work while I was away because I could just make do with the MacBook, so that would be convenient. I’m also looking at getting one of the apps for route mapping, and possibly it will be easier to set up maps on a MacBook.
Yes, I could have mentioned that yet again, but it was explicit in both the introductory article and the poll itself:
If you don’t have an Apple silicon Mac, you’re welcome to participate in the discussion, but please don’t vote in the poll.
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Several people said they run Apple’s iPhone Weather app on their Macs,
I have to ask. How do you even do this?
If I open the Mac App Store and show the list of my iPhone apps, Weather is missing as are all the other default iPhone apps.
If I instead just use the search field, no matter what I search (including explicit mentions like Apple Weather), I get a gigantic list of weather apps (including, as per usual, a massive amount of garbage apps), but none of them appear to be Apple Weather. And this list is not even searchable, which is just one more reason the MAS app is terrible.
Perhaps they were confusing the Mac app for the iPad version? Now that I look at it more carefully on the Mac, there’s no way it could be confused for the iPhone version.