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An interesting thing about the Mac App Store: When you're on an Apple Silicon Mac, the Discover page doesn't show Intel-only apps (even if you have Rosetta inst

by lapcat 4y ago

An interesting thing about the Mac App Store: When you're on an Apple Silicon Mac, the Discover page doesn't show Intel-only apps (even if you have Rosetta installed, which I do). This is why the Top Free Games and Top Paid Games lists are half empty on the page. Many Mac App Store games have not been ported to Apple Silicon yet (or ever, likely).

natch 4y ago
Sounds like a great opportunity for some upstarts to come in with new takes on categories that were previously dominated by someone who is resting easy not updating their app.
- erik 4y ago
  My impression is that the mac app store is pretty low traffic. The opportunity may be pretty small.
  - lapcat 4y ago
    Correct.
  - natch 4y ago
    Good to know, thanks for pointing that out!
jakear 4y ago
This looks... not true? M1 Air, App Store, Discover: "Top Free Games" has 15 entries, same as every other category. "Top Paid Games" does as well. Clicking "See All" on either opens to a free/paid side by side scroll view with ~200 entries for each.
- lapcat 4y ago
  Hmm, this appears to happen on one of my Macs but not the other for some strange reason. In any case, try downloading Steam Link, currently the #2 free game, and you should be able to see that it's Intel-only. % file "/Applications/Steam Link.app/Contents/MacOS/Steam Link" /Applications/Steam Link.app/Contents/MacOS/Steam Link: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64