For a while, Apple had released a version of iTunes – 12.6.5 – that still had the App Store, so businesses could manage apps on their devices. With the release of macOS Mojave, this iTunes version no longer works, so the workaround that Apple had provided to allow some users to still download and manage apps from the desktop is now dead.
So there is one other solution: iMazing can download, install, and manage apps for iOS devices. Check out the linked article for more. I’d still rather have the App Store accessible from the desktop, but this is a solution that can be useful for many people.
Full disclosure: I do writing work and screencasting for iMazing.
What the Hell is going on at Apple? I hate to be a broken record but this level of lack of concern (incompetence?) hardly ever happened when he who’s hardly mentioned these days was in charge.
Yup. Totally agree with Michael P Scott
Bring back Forstall!
Perhaps you’ve forgotten the iTunes 2 update that erased external drives that had spaces in the volume name?
https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drives/
Plenty of other problems over the years too, but the pain fades with time and is forgotten, even by the search engines which crowd the details out with more recent articles.
LOL! Whew. That’s why I’m on OS 10.8 with iTuned v11.4 … everything works perfectly — even iPhone backups and reinstalls to and from iTunes!