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Catalina a Dream for B2b mCommerce Developers

Apple announced during its WWDC keynote that iOS apps will run on macOS, starting with the next major release of macOS this expected to be released today — macOS Catalina. Developers like OrderJump will be able to release ground breaking B2B mCommerce Apps that run on iPad on the Mac without much effort.

With our first look we saw that OSX Catalina looks more like the mobile OS then ever before. Screen time, reminders, and other commonly used mobile apps have been added to the desktop and some apps have been removed from iOS (RIP iTunes) in preparation of more ubiquitous experience. Apple is using Project Catalyst for those apps. That project is what you may already know under Apple’s internal codename Marzipan.

Catalyst has been available to developers today with the first beta version of macOS Catalina. Many cutting edge developers like OrderJump have played with the feature this summer and stand ready to take advantage this year.

After today you can check out Gameloft, Twitter and Atlassian for examples of ported apps to macOS. A native Twitter app available is available to download for the next version of macOS. Companies that develop will be able to ship iOS apps as soon as this fall when users update to macOS Catalina.

This version of macOS is also the first one that doesn’t include iTunes — RIP, iTunes. Apple is breaking out iTunes into multiple apps — Apple Music, Apple TV and Apple Podcasts.

If you want to sync an iOS device with your Mac, you can access that feature from the Finder —You can use your iPad as a secondary display. It works like Duet Display or Luna Display. You can also use an Apple Pencil to draw stuff and edit photos. It works with a cable or wirelessly.  This is where Apple is innovating.

OrderJump is particularly interested in the updates to voice control on macOS and iOS. For instance, you can open apps, scroll by saying “scroll down”, click on buttons and dictate text as well as emojis. Many buttons and areas are labeled with a number so that you can tap or click on an element by dictating it. B2B technology will require these features to work properly in the future. After all these B2B mCommerce Apps are built for work not play.

andrew

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