Apple Announces macOS 10.15 "Catalina" with New Music, TV, and Podcasts Apps

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Apple Announces macOS 10.15 "Catalina" with New Music, TV, and Podcasts Apps 

Apple announced today during its keynote speech at the WWDC 2019 developer conference event the macOS 10.15 "Catalina" operating system for Mac computers, coming this fall with numerous new features and improvements.

 

macOS 10.15 Catalina doesn't look like a massive update to the already powerful operating system for Macs, but it does bring some important changes, such as the deprecation of the iTunes app after more than 18 years, which will be replaced with new Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Podcasts apps. Additionally, macOS 10.15 Catalina introduces an all-new SideCar feature that lets you extend your Mac's display to an iPad as a secondary display.

macOS 10.15 Catalina also promises new security features to better protect your Mac, including a unified Find My app that lets you find your Mac, iPhone, or iPad, even if they're offline. The Voice Control feature has been enhanced as well for users with disabilities to let them take control of their Mac entirely with their voice. iOS's Screen Time feature is also coming to the Mac with macOS 10.15 Catalina.

"With macOS Catalina, we’re bringing fresh new apps to the Mac, starting with new standalone versions of Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and the Apple TV app," said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. "Users will appreciate how they can expand their workspace with Sidecar, enabling new ways of interacting with Mac apps using iPad and Apple Pencil. And with new developer technologies, users will see more great third-party apps arrive on the Mac this fall."Supported Macs and availabilityAlso new in macOS 10.15 Catalina are a bunch of new APIs and tools for developers to help them port their iPad apps to the Mac. Among the big name apps that have already been announced to come to the Mac this fall with macOS 10.15 Catalina, we can mention the popular Asphalt 9: Legends racing arcade video game, Twitter, and Jira Cloud. The revamped Reminders app from iOS 13 will also be available in macOS Catalina.

macOS 10.15 Catalina will be supported on all Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, including MacBook 2015 and later, MacBook Air 2012 and later, MacBook Pro 2012 and later, Mac mini 2012 and later, iMac 2012 and later, iMac Pro 2017 and later, as well as Mac Pro 2013 and later. The first beta release is out now for registered developers, with the public beta coming in July. macOS Catalina will be available this fall as a free update.

 

 

 

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Which Macs will run Apple’s macOS Catalina?

Apple unveils its next desktop OS, sticks with odd-even support cadence.

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Apple kept to past practice yesterday when it said virtually all Macs able to run the current version of macOS will be supported by the upcoming upgrade, dubbed “Catalina,” when it ships this fall.

 

On Monday, the Cupertino, Calif.. company unveiled mac OS 10.15, or Catalina, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The free upgrade, likely to be released in September, includes a host of security enhancements, several revamped first-party apps, support for iPad apps and more.

Odd, even

Apple has relied on an odd-even cycle for its macOS upgrades’ system requirements. The cadence has alternately retained the prior year’s models on the new version’s support list (odd-numbered years, like this one, with odd-numbered editions, as in 10.15) and dropped models from the list (even-numbered years, even-numbered editions).

 

In 2016, for instance, macOS Sierra (10.12) struck 2007’s, 2008’s and some of 2009’s Macs from support. Meanwhile, in 2017, High Sierra (10.13) stayed with the same models as Sierra. Then in 2018, macOS Mojave dropped a slew of Macs — all those introduced in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

 

So it was no surprise that macOS Catalina (10.15) retained most Macs that had been able to run last year’s Mojave.

 

According to Apple, these are the Macs that will run Catalina:

• MacBook 2015 and later
• MacBook Air 2012 and later
• MacBook Pro 2012 and later
• iMac 2012 and later
• iMac Pro 2017 and later
• Mac Mini 2012 and later
• Mac Pro 2013 and later

The only Macs able to run Mojave that were absent from Catalina’s list were the mid-2010 and mid-2012 Mac Pro machines. The now-abandoned Mac Pros will be supported with security-only updates to Mojave through the summer of 2021, however.

 

Although registered developers were given access to Catalina preview code Monday, the public beta won’t debut until next month, Apple said.

 

macOS Catalina will be available from the Mac App Store when it debuts.

 

Source: Which Macs will run Apple’s macOS Catalina? (Computerworld - Gregg Keizer)