
Screenshot by Dieter Bohn / The Vergeīy offering universal purchases, though, Apple could help prime the pump for a new wave of Catalyst apps by removing a key barrier on the consumer side: the requirement that customers pay again on Mac for the apps that they’ve already bought on their phones and tablets. Your feeds are on the left, a list of articles are on the right above the content itself. With a familiar interface and the ability to import and export subscriptions, Vienna is well worth a look if youre checking out Mac RSS readers. In practice, Catalyst apps have had a slow start, with developers reluctant to adopt the complicated new system and users hesitant to embrace it. Vienna is a desktop app for the Mac you can use to read all of your favorite RSS feeds on.
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The idea is that Mac developers can use Catalyst apps to make it easier to port over iOS apps (which are based on Apple’s UIKit software framework) to macOS without having to rewrite the entire app for the AppKit software framework traditionally used on desktop.


The new feature appears to be a big part of Apple’s plans to encourage developers to create more Catalyst apps: universal purchases will be enabled by default in Xcode 11.4, and developers will be able to add existing Mac apps to support universal purchases, too.Ĭatalyst apps launched in macOS 10.15 Catalina earlier this year (after an extended trial period by Apple in macOS 10.14 under the “Marzipan” codename). Universal Purchase for Mac/iOS apps! /9yNrDmwvWD- Steve Troughton-Smith February 5, 2020
