Will we just straight up be able to use iPad apps on the new Macs? Is that real?

[TomOSeven]

I'm specifically thinking of apps like Udemy, that let you store a lot of content locally. Being able to use my udemy courses offline on a laptop would be huge to me.

How exactly does it work, do developers have to enable that someone?

 

[LeeW]

They should just work, that is what we are being told anyway. They will be displayed in a window that has the resolution matched to whatever it was natively designed for.

The suggestion is that developers will be able to make changes so that if the App is being run on a MacBook for example, the onscreen keyboard can be removed as it would be no use of course.

 

[0128672]

Yes, if the developer enables it. Here's a good explanation from 9to5mac.com:

iOS apps will run on Apple Silicon Macs, but major developers have already opted out of the Mac App Store - 9to5Mac

Apple will hold another special event tomorrow, and we expect to see the first Mac with Apple Silicon chips. While...

9to5mac.com

 

[TomOSeven]

Yes, if the developer enables it.

Dammit, so no when it comes Udemy. I love their site, but the app is definitely a red-headed step child.

 

[LonestarOne]

Yes, if the developer enables it.

That is not correct. Downloading iOS apps from the App Store to Apple Silicon Macs is enabled by default. Developers have to deliberately disable the option if they don’t want it.

 

[LonestarOne]

For the most part, iOS apps will be able to run on Apple Silicon Macs. Some may not be less useful, or completely useless, because they depend on hardware features that aren’t available on Macs, and developers have the option of preventing an iOS app from being installed on a Mac, which might be for technical reasons, marketing reasons, or sheer pigheaded cussedness.