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Apple's MacOS Catalina Will Open Up To iPad Apps, Be Available In the Fall (cnet.com) 38

Posted by BeauHD from the new-and-improved dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Apple on Monday announced the next version of MacOS. Called Catalina, the next major revision of the MacOS will replace the iTunes app with three dedicated media apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. The update coming this fall will also let Mac users run iPad apps they can download through the Mac App Store. Using the new Project Catalyst development tool, third-party iPad developers will be able to easily bring their iPad apps for the Mac, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said. Apple's goal for developers is to help them build apps without a lot of extra effort that can run on both iOS and MacOS devices. And Mac users will benefit by getting access to an expanded collection of MacOS apps. MacOS Catalina will also let you use an iPad as a second screen. Developer betas for MacOS Catalina and iOS 13 will be available today. Public betas will come in July, and both desktop and mobile OSes will ship in the fall.
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  • May help iPad as much as it does Mac (Score:5, Interesting)

    by JoeyRox ( 2711699 ) on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:55PM (#58703902)
    There's certainly been a dearth of new apps for the Mac in the past few years and so the ability to compile and port iPad apps to run on the Mac will certainly help that situation. But the iPad is a bit of a forgotten stepchild itself, with most iOS apps not having much if any iPad-specific functionality. Perhaps this will change with the prospect of having the Mac as an additional platform to sell iPad apps in to.

  • Me too music and TV apps that nobody wants, and broken keyboards. Think diffident.

  • a small amount of Steve Jobs ashes. /s

    Couldn't there just be one article about WWDC with links to the actual information?

    I'm sure there is click demand for Apple news, but these are all just posting links to multiple other sources.

  • I find it really interesting the lost QA and dropping level of UX in Apple devices does not reflect on fanboi population. Apple would probably find new problems to inject to their OS which is degrading each passing day. Last two or three updates failed to correct keyboard mapping probllems in certain configurations, I do not expect a new major release would change this ineptitude. OTOH it is obvious /. is turning in their new advertisement platform for some reason...
  • What's going on? Massive marketing press release blitz by Apple and uncritical editorial by Slashdot editors, just publishing whatever they're fed?
    Or is there some payment for placement going on here?

    What's up. This is pretty extreme and blatant.
  • I thought all MacOS versions were named after cats?
    • They started using mountains? quite some time ago. OS X Mavericks – 10.9, OS X Yosemite – 10.10, OS X El Capitan – 10.11, macOS Sierra – 10.12, macOS High Sierra – 10.13, macOS Mojave – 10.14, macOS Catalina - 10.15

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by necro81 ( 917438 )
      Five or six years ago, starting with 10.9 Mavericks, Apple started naming their OS releases after locations in California [techcrunch.com]. (See also, Wikipedia: OS X - Release History [wikipedia.org].) This retires the big cat namespace. They can probably run with this new namespace for another 10-20 years before the names get too obscure.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude ( 79039 )

      Where have you been? They stopped since OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (Zinfandel).

  • Wow, Apple news is getting very predictable and boring.

  • Ends 32 bit application support (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Apple decided to end support of 32 bit applications with their next release. They have made annoying popups telling people to update their 32 bit applications because they won't work when they update. However in the real world that just doesn't work. The problem is not at the end user, but the fact that the 64 bit updates have failed to arrive.

    If we look at why applications are stuck being 32 bit, then it's obviously applications not being updated anymore for whatever reason or the update is a new version m

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by cob666 ( 656740 )
      If you really want some of the features of the new OS then you can run an older version of MacOS in a VM.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        If you really want some of the features of the new OS then you can run an older version of MacOS in a VM.

        That's correct and incorrect at the same time. EyeTV can record TV shows on the HD and if the computer is off, it will boot the computer in time for the recording to start. If the TV should watch for recordings around the clock, then the VM would have to run around the clock. It's a major downgrade.

        I agree a VM could solve a bunch of issues, but it's HD consuming, requires more technical skills and is generally a slower and worse user experience. Don't get me wrong. VMs can be great in many cases. However i

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