Apple is said to have plan to combine iPhone, iPad, Mac apps

Apple Inc. MacBook Pro laptop computers sit on display at the company's Williamsburg store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, May 20, 2017. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said in May that the company planned to invest at least $1 billion to back advanced manufacturing companies in the U.S. and help create jobs in the industry. Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg

Apple Inc’s iPhone and iPad introduced a novel way of interacting with computers: via easy-to-use applications, accessible in the highly curated App Store. 

The same approach hasn’t worked nearly as well on Apple’s desktops and laptops. The Mac App Store is a ghost town of limited selection and rarely updated programs. Now Apple plans to change that by giving people a way to use a single set of apps that work equally well across its family of devices: iPhones, iPads and Macs.