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Universal and Native Apple Silicon Apps

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STOCK411 said:
Banking/finance/Health apps, have some justifiable reasons (at least) for taking time...

A complete overhaul of those apps probably has to go thru a bunch of approvals to makes sure they meet all financial and healthcare regulations
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Active Trader Pro was written in the 1990s using an ancient tool and it runs via WINE on macOS. They have developed complete iPhone and iPad apps for trading in the past decade. They could have rewritten their desktop program with about the same resources.

Think or Swim is a Java application. Java is portable and there native Apple Silicon distributions. I have a video showing you how to install Apple Silicon Java and running Think or Swim natively and I put out the first version of the video back in 2021.
 
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Logitech Logi Tune is now Apple Silicon-native/Universal as of v3.2.247.

Only issue now is the menu bar icon doesn't transition with dark/light backgrounds as other icons do.
 
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I just got this email regarding Kindle for Mac. From what it says, there is a new app for Mac, which will be able to be downloaded from the App Store starting sometime this month. The current app will be supported until October 2023. It does not mention if the new app will be on Apple Silicon, but seems likely
 

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I got the same email (well, UK version) but it is still a strange way to deliver an update. The email went out in Sept but before the new app was actually ready and slightly after the old app was removed from the App Store - all with less than a month before the old app stops working. The old app is needed to transfer purchases to the new one; if unable to do so before the diminishing days left in Sept, then what?

There may be a bit of spilt milk for those who do not or cannot do the update dance in the remaining days. It is usually considered wise to have an app actually launch before calling 'time' on the old one!

Support for the current app will be ending by October 2023. The new Kindle for Mac will be available to download from the Mac App Store in September 2023.
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So yeah, I guess I could do the update in Sept, but we are 4 days in now and the new app has yet to appear.

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I thought my post had aged badly in around a minute as 'Kindle For Mac' has just listed on the App Store. Unfortunately it is only the old one again. Still, its reappearance will help some of those with the transition... so there is that I guess.

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Are we supposed to download the old one and update it or wait for the new Kindle app to appear?
 
RobbieTT said:
I thought my post had aged badly in around a minute as 'Kindle For Mac' has just listed on the App Store. Unfortunately it is only the old one again. Still, its reappearance will help some of those with the transition... so there is that I guess.

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Kindle for Mac has been on the App Store for years- release notes go back 9 years and I've had it installed on many older Macs.
 
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Did I say it didn't exist or imply that I did not have it installed?

No, I said it was pulled and then returned to the App Store in the context that the new one failed to appear even by the start of this month.

I didn't think it would be that hard to understand.

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RobbieTT said:
@chrfr
Did I say it didn't exist or imply that I did not have it installed?

No, I said it was pulled and then returned to the App Store in the context that the new one failed to appear even by the start of this month.

I didn't think it would be that hard to understand.

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…but it hadn’t been pulled.
 
AdGuard for Mac has been a Universal binary for quite a while now, since v. 2.6.0 released in 2021. I'll update the wiki.
 
chrfr said:
…but it hadn’t been pulled.
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You sound like the proverbial kid in the playground. In my region it was pulled on the 1st to the 4th. No doubt this was on the assumption that the new one would be live by then. Even now, the new app remains absent, at least in my region.

This is the internet dude; add constructive stuff or just don't type. It is an easy method to avoid looking petty or silly.

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WhatsApp finally came out of beta and is available to download. 🥳
The native app has this version number: 23.17.82 (513746600).

The list on the first post can be updated.

App store version 2.2335.9 is still non native.
 
and its live
apps.apple.com

‎Amazon Kindle

‎READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE Got a Mac? You've got a Kindle. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. GO BEYOND PAPER Turn your Mac into a book with the free Kindle app—so you can read anytime, anywhere. Explore these reading features in the Kindle app: •...
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STOCK411 said:
and its live
apps.apple.com

‎Amazon Kindle

‎READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE Got a Mac? You've got a Kindle. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. GO BEYOND PAPER Turn your Mac into a book with the free Kindle app—so you can read anytime, anywhere. Explore these reading features in the Kindle app: •...
apps.apple.com
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I just downloaded this and it's an Intel app, version 6.85.1.
 
of course it is... did we expect competency from Amazon?

Its been how many years since the first M1 chip.... And they finally release a new version thats still Intel...


chrfr said:
I just downloaded this and it's an Intel app, version 6.85.1.
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STOCK411 said:
A team of 8 year olds would have released a native AS kindle app by now.
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Isn't the kindle app electron? Or is that only Kobo's?

Basically, in my experience, the only non-AS-native apps left (Authy, I'm looking at you) are electron. And that makes sense, even though electron makes it easy to support AS - if you are suffering from so much brain damage and judgment impairment that you think electron is a half-reasonable way to develop software, then why would you have any concerns about running it in Rosetta 2? And surely you have no concerns about your end-users' resources, otherwise you wouldn't inflict an electron app upon them...

I really, really wish the late Steve Jobs had been around and had been able to do to Electron the same thing he did to Flash. If anything, Electron didn't have an installed base of 10-15 years, so it should have been easier to prevent it from getting entrenched.
 
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