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Making custom OSX controls is easy with PaintCode (http://www.paintcodeapp.com). It is a vector drawing app that generates Objective-C drawing code.

His point is that you have to create complex custom controls on OSX, whereas in iOS it'll generally be sufficient to mix and match a few views and CoreAnimation, and use customization options not present in OSX.

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