So, it's now been broken up into its constituent parts. Services new and established, from Arcade to Music, TV+ to News, are launching and venerable old iTunes simply can't keep up. Others, we're just beginning.Īt the same time, Apple's scope is growing. We're in the midst of multiple massive paradigm shifts, each of which will take several versions to play out. And, while they try to find that balance, casual users might be annoyed by increased privacy disclosures and power users, increased root-level restrictions. So, Apple is being forced to go back and try to balance the traditional openness of the Mac while retro-fitting the defense-in-depth that was built into iOS from the beginning. The threat levels have changed, as have the threats themselves. Gone are the days when the ubiquity of Windows provided the best virus protection imaginable for the Mac.
And many developers won't be able to make full use of this version's new technologies like Catalyst, never mind SwiftUI, just because Catalina has shipped. Not every volume was migrated to APFS immediately. Not every app moved to 64-bit or was re-written in Swift year one.