Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad & Mac Apps to Create One User Experience
- Aim is to let developers expand iOS apps to Mac computers
- Apple customers have complained some Mac apps get short shrift
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Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad introduced a novel way of interacting with computers: via easy-to-use applications, accessible in the highly curated App Store.
The same approach hasn’t worked nearly as well on Apple’s desktops and laptops. The Mac App Store is a ghost town of limited selection and rarely updated programs. Now Apple plans to change that by giving people a way to use a single set of apps that work equally well across its family of devices: iPhones, iPads and Macs.