Apple says it's moving to its own Apple Silicon chips for Macs over the next two years, promising better performance, with “Rosetta 2” for app compatibility
Apple's first ARM-based Mac will be available later this year — Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware.
The Verge Tom Warren
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Discussion
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@asymco
Horace Dediu
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iPhone and iPad apps will run unmodified on Macs.
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@inafried
Ina Fried
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As for third-party support, Apple said Microsoft has Office running natively on Apple chips, while Adobe is also working on many of its key Creative Cloud apps, with some already up and running on Apple chips.
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@stevesi
Steven Sinofsky
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2/2 Until a Mac is only running Catalyst + full iPad apps (multiple windows, trackpad, etc) the full experience of macOS 11+Apple Silicon will be held back (performance, security, battery life, UX integration,...). Just as iPhone morphed OS X, iPadOS is morphing macOS to a new OS…
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@danilic
@danilic
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Apple's move to ARM is going to be way less painful for consumers than their move from OS9 to Mac OS X and PPC to Intel. So much expensive software is now all subscription. Most of my work is cloud platform based theses days too. #WWDC2020
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@cowcatgames
Fabrice Breton
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One thing for sure - Apple really expects devs to keep updating their apps constantly by breaking compatibility every 2-3 years. That may work for popular software but what about less popular ones and especially games?... I'm still unsure whether to keep supporting Macs. https://…
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@horwitz
Jeremy Horwitz
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Confirmed: iOS and iPadOS apps will be able to run unmodified on Apple Silicon / ARM Macs, but not on Intel Macs. https://venturebeat.com/...
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@stroughtonsmith
Steve Troughton-Smith
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Congratulations! Your app is automatically a Catalyst app now. Hope you're ready! 😂
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@etherealmind
@etherealmind
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I'm in favour of this. Intel hasn't delivered on CPU performance per watt over the last few years and roadmap doesn't look good either. The move to Apple Silicon, while painful, is necessary. Intel will survive but with diminished stature. https://twitter.com/...
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@stevesi
Steven Sinofsky
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macOS on ARM is a kitchen sink approach—ideal for developers. It has old APIs, new APIs, iOS compatibility¹, virtualization, and translation. Plus widgets, and add-ins, and more. Oh my. Everything. Except. Touch.
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@zcichy
Zac Cichy
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Apple Transition Kit is a Mac mini with an iPad stuffed inside.
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@asymco
Horace Dediu
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First A Series Mac? Mac Mini, of course.
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@krzyzanowskim
@krzyzanowskim
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$500 Apple Silicon Mac Mini is faster than your $6000 Mac Pro this is current message
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@cstross
Charlie Stross
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“Transition kit” development Macs—Mac Mini with 16Gb and ARM cpu—shipping next week. THE TEMPTATION to buy one and shoe-horn it inside that G4 Cube's case is OUTRAGEOUS. (Especially as the Cube still works. Sacrilige!)
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@mrtechrant
Trenton Marshall
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I wanna see how that a12 Mac mini handles with Final Cut 👀
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@siracusa
John Siracusa
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So, uh, how do you do multi-touch on iOS and iPadOS apps running on Big Sur? Will it work like the Simulator does today?
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@mishaalrahman
Mishaal Rahman
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Google tried to do this with Android apps on Chrome OS but gave developers few reasons to care about optimizing their layouts for larger screens. I have no doubt that Apple will handle this much better. https://twitter.com/...
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@mpesce
@mpesce
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Macs with new Apple-built chips will natively run iPhone and iPad apps - The Verge // the biggest news from WWDC sees the final blurring between desktop and handheld UX https://www.theverge.com/...
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@topjohnwu
John Wu
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People might not realize, but iOS and macOS is basically the same OS. The existence of Catalyst is proof. The only difference here is that it is using the same SOC as iOS devices, so the binaries don't need to be recompiled like Catalyst. https://twitter.com/...
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@backlon
Dieter Bohn
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There's a world in which this plays out as only a very few pro-level apps and some electron developers bother making traditional Mac apps anymore. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@spencerdailey
Spencer Dailey
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@Techmeme @cgartenberg you know what would make sense to have in the pipeline, now more than ever? Touchscreen Macs
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@stroughtonsmith
Steve Troughton-Smith
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macOS 11 running iOS apps unmodified, directly from the App Store, is a shot across the bow of any developers thinking they could sit out Catalyst and avoid adding Mac-specific APIs until some nebulous ‘future’ where they can rewrite their entire UIs in SwiftUI. Time's now!
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@neilcybart
Neil Cybart
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~90% of Apple users don't use, and probably will never use, a Mac. Goes to show how the iPhone has transformed Apple's installed base and ecosystem over the past 10 years. https://twitter.com/...