Spending a few days with the 2020 Mac mini has shown me that it’s a barnburner of a miniature desktop PC. (It works as intended on the new laptops.) I think people are going to run into some confusion and disappointment, and it really seems like Apple should’ve made this an opt-in gallery instead of serving customers this weird mishmash. Why would I want to run a utility app for Samsung earbuds on my Mac? Or the Dunkin’ Donuts app? It’d be nice to use my favorite guitar tuner app, Fender Tune, but it doesn’t recognize any sound input since there’s no internal mic on the mini.

But a lot of what’s available just… doesn’t make sense.

Some developers are likely holding off so they can polish their mobile apps to behave better on macOS. And many developers have opted out, meaning you won’t find mainstay apps like Gmail, Instagram (though Facebook is listed), Netflix, TikTok, and countless others. But even some that lack that warning - like Tumblr - totally crash when opened. Many of these will say that they haven’t been verified for Mac. If you're depending on macOS Server to run your business in the future, you're going to need an experienced full-time sysadmin.If you head to the “purchased” area of the Mac App Store, you’ll now find a tab for iPhone and iPad apps. But, Apple promised that macOS Server is 'so easy to use, you don't need your own IT department.' That's no longer the case. Many of them are fine recommendations, DNSMasq, for example, is an excellent caching DNS server. I've looked over Apple's suggested software list. What should you do? Apple suggested you install and use replacement programs. But they will be removed in a future release of macOS Server. You'll still be able to use all these soon to be missing-in-action services in the forthcoming spring 2018 macOS Server update. The XCode integrated developer environment (IDE) Server was also moved into macOS's XCode. Read also: Google moves to Debian for in-house Linux desktopĪs for Caching Server, Time Machine Server, and File Sharing advanced options, Apple already moved those into into ordinary macOS - with the arrival of macOS High Sierra in September 2017.

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