In the Big Sur full release, this sorry situation has been vastly improved. Inconsistent information also often totally omitted the name of the show altogether. Yet a host of useful features were utterly absent, including a schedule showing the shows’ start and end times, as well as genre tags and categories. Beats 1, Apple’s headline radio station, got one, while the other was allocated to a featured show. Previously, this tab was dominated by two large buttons that were unintuitive. The biggest improvements come to the Radio tab, which was a real mess during the beta. Perhaps someone at Apple was listening to my ranting and raving in that article, because Music has been greatly improved in the full release of Big Sur. It was a strange situation to find the app in, as it had been completely useable in MacOS Catalina, yet fell off a cliff in the beta of the next version of the Mac operating system. When I looked at the range of Mac Catalyst apps in the Big Sur beta, Music was by far the worst of the bunch. Making sweet Music The Radio section in Music is vastly improved over the Big Sur beta. That means we can finally recommend Apple’s own take on Mac Catalyst apps, albeit not wholeheartedly. Through many successive iterations, it has ironed out the creases that marred its early attempts. Two and a half years later, Apple seems to finally have a grip on its Mac Catalyst apps. It was very out of character for a company that prefers to wait until a technology is perfect rather than rushing to market with something that is not ready. Yet the idea of how an iPad app should work on a Mac was nowhere near settled, and even Apple apparently did not have the answer. Though we did not know it at the time, Apple’s plan to ditch Intel processors was well underway when Mac Catalyst launched in 2018, and that necessitated a tool that could help developers get their apps ready for the brave new world. Looking back, it seems obvious Apple was in a rush with Mac Catalyst. Should you use Apple’s Mac Catalyst apps?.
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