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A lot of people assuming this is political, but maybe Phil just doesn't want to be on a platform that will be run by engineers who are treated like expendable serfs, the way Musk has treated Twitter's staff so far he's driving their most crucial talent away. Phil was in charge of improving the App Store experience for developers (shorter app review times and modifications to revenue split, better communication) so it makes sense for him to support the talented developers who realise Twitter under Musk has no respect for them. 

xyzzy-xxx said:

There are too many caveats with this feature right now:

1. you can set only one price (so the iOS version needs to become pricier)

I don't see why that's a problem, if you want the purchase on one platform to unlock the other it only makes sense to have one price since most Mac users can pay the iPhone price and still get the Mac app. If you want different prices surely you should have two different in app purchases? I already have a Mac/iPhone couple of apps which unlock each other via iCloud NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore if the purchase has been made on the other app/device. You could use a solution like that which until now we had to, to offer users a discount on the Mac app for iPhone users and unlock the iPhone app for Mac users if you choose to.

2. you need to set the same bundle identifier for both apps, developers that already have an iOS and macOS app would probably end to duplicate apps (meaning multiple app reviews for each update) so that old customers continue to get updates.

This is an annoying issue, I wish they'd figured out a way to make the transition smoother. I made a catalyst app for an existing iOS app in 11.3 and was waiting for 11.4 for this feature to release it but it looks as though I'll have to go back to a version before I added the catalyst app and start from scratch now in order to use universal purchases.

If this is true is it going to replace the 8 and if not why would someone purchase that for $50 more with a 2 year old CPU? Are they just going to reduce the base storage?

I just replaced the SSD on a 2013 MBP with an M.2 SSD and a very cheap adapter. Why pay more for this?