Simply final 12 months, Apple made the transition from Intel to its personal M1 chipsets. Because of this, apps developed for x86 platforms like Intel’s processors can not run natively on M1 chipsets, which signifies that builders will now have to begin growing apps native to the M1 and future chipsets from Apple.
Nonetheless, plainly perhaps Apple selected the incorrect time to make the transition. It is because in accordance with a research by AppFigures, it seems the developer curiosity within the Mac platform is beginning to wane. Primarily based on the figures, a median of 343 apps have been submitted to the Mac App Retailer in 2021.
That is versus 2020 the place it was round 392 apps averaged a month, which signifies that there are actually much less Mac apps being launched. Nonetheless, it’s potential that as a result of swap to the M1, builders are nonetheless engaged on getting their apps optimized for it which may counsel the decelerate in submissions and releases.
Additionally, it must be identified that Mac apps will be downloaded exterior the Mac App Retailer, so perhaps simply curiosity in submitting to the App Retailer is waning, particularly within the face of Apple taking a 30% reduce from builders. Apple’s macOS is much from being in any actual hassle, but it surely’s in all probability one thing they’ll need to look into anyway.
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