macOS benefits from a large and thriving community of developers. Most popular applications are available in versions for macOS and can be downloaded from the App Store or directly from the developer's website. As for the software that is still not available for macOS, you have alternatives as well. You can either use the built-in Boot Camp tool, which allows you to install and use Windows on Mac, or you can also use third-party alternatives, such as Parallels Desktop, which allows you to have a fully integrated virtual machine for using Windows on Mac without even having to leave your current user session. We will also explore the current state of macOS's app compatibility with 32- and 64-bit apps, Universal apps, and iOS apps.
To use apps in macOS, we need to know the types of apps that macOS supports, and we will talk about them in the following sections of this chapter. More specifically, we will cover the following:
- Supported macOS environments...