MacOS Catalina: Apple's next MacOS will open to iPad apps, coming this fall

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Monday, at the world conference of developers, Apple unveiled the next major revision of MacOS.

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Apple announced Monday Catalina, the next version of MacOS. The next major revision of the MacOS will be available this fall and replace the iTunes application with three separate applications: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. The update will also leave Mac users use iPad apps they can download via the Mac App Store. The announcements were announced on the first day of the global developer conference organized by the company. held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

The new Apple Music, TV and Podcasts applications will replace iTunes, Apple said. Released in 2001, iTunes was originally designed to help you store and manage your music. During its 18 years, the capabilities of the application have grown to become a music and video store. a digital shoebox for your music collections, movies, TV shows, ebooks, podcasts and apps; and the point of synchronization between Apple devices. His work managing all your digital entertainment assets has made iTunes essential and ultimately frustrating. Removing iTunes and separating its main tasks into separate applications should make it easier to manage all the digital assets on your Mac.

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Apple presents MacOS Catalina

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With the help of Project Catalyst's new development tool, third-party iPad developers will be able to easily bring their iPad applications to Mac, "said Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering at Apple. Apple's goal for developers is to help them create applications without extra effort that can work on both iOS and MacOS devices. And Mac users will benefit from access to an extensive collection of MacOS applications.

At the conference last year, Apple announced that it would bring a handful of its own iOS applications to MacOS Mojave – the iOS News, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Home Apps, and give iOS third-party developers the tools they would need to bring their own iOS apps to the Mac App Store in 2019.

And with Sidecar, MacOS Catalina will leave you use an iPad as a second screen and a drawing pad.

The update will also come with a new accessibility tool called Voice Control that will allow users to drive their Mac with their voice.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said beta versions of developers for MacOS Catalina and iOS 13 should be available today. Cook will announce that the beta versions of the public will come in July, and that the mobile and mobile operating systems will be released in the fall.

To run Catalina, you will need a MacBook 2015 and later; MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini or iMac 2012 or later; iMac Pro 2017 or later; or Mac Pro 2013 or later.

Parallel to its MacOS news, Apple has unveiled a new Mac Pro – a brand new update to the company's flagship desktop computer – and the equally stupid Apple Pro Display XDR, both designed for the professional market and coming this fall.

Apple has more operating systems than ever before. There is iOS for iPhone and iPad, MacOS for desktop and mobile, TVOS for Apple TV and WatchOS for Apple Watch. Then there is Apple Pay, Apple Music, the App Store, iCloud, HomeKit and various other services and applications. It is essential that Apple make strong impression at WWDC with future releases of its software.