Reply 100 of 547, by ShovelKnight
chinny22 wrote on 2020-06-23, 08:53:I wouldn't be surprised if Apple will end up pushing and "encouraging" 3rd parties to push more and more things into the cloud and the Mac is more like a terminal client to their "mainframe in the sky"
I don't like that idea but seems to be the way the world is moving (Office 365, Netflix, etc) and to give them credit Apple has always been a bit ahead in the curve.
I don't think they're actually interested in having non-native apps on the system because it hurts user experience, but it may be the only sustainable software model going forward.
BTW, I'm pretty sure modern Autodesk apps (at least Fusion 360) are actually running on Autodesk servers and the local client is just "streaming" the application and rendering the UI locally. Everything else happens in the cloud.