Apple unifies its app stores by extending the universal purchase option to Mac apps

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Apple surprised its app developer community today with the official announcement that they’ll soon be able to sell their cross-platform apps as one universal purchase, including, for the time, apps that run on macOS. For consumers, a universal purchase option allows them to just pay once for an app that works across devices, including iPhone, […]

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LOL, Apple makes this sound like it's an advantage to developers. I don't believe it is since developers are now able to sell their apps twice. A good example of this is with Apps such as 1Password and many others which charge again for the iOS version in addition to the macOS version.

And since developers are still doing as much work developing an app both for macOS and iOS, it's certainly not going to save them anything.

But what it means to you and I is that prices are going to go up for those apps which are both macOS and iOS capable.