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    Project Catalyst reveals Apple’s struggle with the future of the Mac

    Jul 23, 2019 4 minutes
    BY JASON SNELL

    There’s an old joke about a bad writer blaming his tools—a sad excuse that it was the typewriter and not poor writing skill that was to blame. When macOS Mojave was announced last year, featuring four apps that originated on iOS and had been moved to the Mac by something we now call Catalyst, many of us were quick to blame Catalyst for the strange design quirks of those apps, which seemed simplified in ways that were jarring.

    Recent statements by Apple software head Craig Federighi, including his interview with John Gruber during WWDC and a subsequent interview with Jason Hiner of CNet, make it worth revisiting that assumption.

    “When I read some of

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