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Cheap Apple
On 2017-11-13 10:41, PeterN wrote:
On 11/13/2017 2:56 AM, android wrote: Lots of folks are curious in what step Apple will take next with Mac hard and software. If you are interested in the current family of systems it might be a good idea to take a step back and see where they are heading. Will there be separate mac- and i- OSs or will they merge? Will the hardware merge so that we will see ARM processors on Macs? That will be sorted out then the new Mac Pro system arrives. Until then the serious hobbyist with other obligations and limited resources could be wise to wait and see if Apples new offerings due in a year or so just see if is that is that they want. They do charge for the gear, you know! Good advice No. It's crappy advice. Apple will not merge iOS and MacOS despite greater and greater integration and interoperability between them (across apps via iCloud and local comms services such as handover). What they will do (and almost certainly have running in the back room) is move Macs from intel to ARM processors. But this will be very transparent to users and more so than during the past quite smooth transition from PowerPC to intel. Those developers who completely adopted XCode/Cocoa will be able to distribute their code to the new ARM world with nary a change to their code - so no impact on late intel adopters, contrary to the nonsense above. This will be even smoother than the Rosetta supported PPC/intel transition. The main difference is that iOS is mainly a "consumption and capture" device whereas a Mac is a mainly "workstation and creation" device. There is overlap (when isn't there?). But they will remain very separate for many years to come. That said, the higher end iPads are becoming desktop class devices in computing and graphics power. But they are hampered to a degree where storage and peripherals are concerned. If one operates several Macs, iPhones and iPads as I do at home and at work, one is very grateful for the interoperability provided in a near seamless manner between iOS and Mac OS. There's no need to merge them - indeed "under the hood" they have had a ton of commonality since the iPhone (or even iPod). -- "My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth." ...Donald Trump |
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