Porting an iPhone app to a desktop app

I am new to objective C and Cocoa, and yet have managed to develop a pretty complex app for the iPhone.
Being lazy, I would like to also run this on a Mac Pro for instance, or other Mac computers/laptops.
Is there a simple way for me to "port" my iPhone app to the desktop?
Thanks.

Well its not necessarily easy, and you also have to think about rewriting your views for Mac OS X, and not the iPhone, and also keep in mind you have to have a completely different interface in Mac OS X compared to the iPhone. Note that something complex in a mobile device might not be complex at all on a full desktop environment. But considering you have already created the application for the iPhone, you know where your headed and have your objects planned out, and also saying that you can program Mac in the same coding language, it should be easier than scratch right?

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