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At least for me, there's really no good reason to upgrade to Catalina. Most of the new "features" are things that I can't or won't use (e.g. desktop Siri). However Catalina causes a lot of problems with things that I do care about (32 bit apps, hardware drivers)

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I won't pretend you have the same interests as me but one of the reasons I personally look(ed) forward to Catalina was the ability to essentially "run iOS apps" (recompiled for macOS).

I can't wait to get rid of some of my Electron apps in favor of proper native ones. That feature alone would be worth the upgrade in my opinion.

But that's not to say I agree with how they've implemented the permissions dialogs. As a developer who had to deal with them I found several glaring bugs in Mojave, not to mention a sub-par UX. I'm sad if they haven't improved on that.

How can you just "run iOS apps"?

Developers can use Catalyst to build their iPad/iOS apps for Mac. New thing with the new OS version. And sort of a path forward towards the idea of Swift UI and one UItoolkit to rule them all I guess.

https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/

The day before Catalina was released, I found myself looking for the Podcasts app on macOS. I've become a big fan of it on iOS and couldn't remember if it was one those early iOS-to-macOS apps, like News. It wasn't. Bummer.

Upgraded to Catalina without a second thought after seeing that Podcasts was included.

It's tiny, but it's things like that that make this feature cool. Just a little less friction between the platforms.

> Most of the new "features" are things that I can't or won't use (e.g. desktop Siri).

That was launched alongside macOS Sierra.

I was referring to this[1], which I suppose is branded as an accessibility feature and not part of Siri

[1]: https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/docs/Voice_Control_Tech...

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