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 head to the “purchased” area of the Mac App Store, you’ll now find a tab for iPhone and iPad apps.

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