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My concern is that they are going to completely lock down and cripple MacOS and turn it into iOS, making it worthless as a professional machine. The CPU doesn't

by api 9y ago

My concern is that they are going to completely lock down and cripple MacOS and turn it into iOS, making it worthless as a professional machine. The CPU doesn't matter but the versatility and user-centric-ness of the OS does. If they're talking about making MacOS more like iOS I think it might be time to start looking for the exit. A laptop/desktop is not just a portable dumb terminal for accessing siloed cloud services.

olivermarks 9y ago
I agree and it's unlikely my next laptop will be an Apple device...
- schappim 9y ago
  I was thinking the same thing, but Apple doesn't care. Folks like us do not represent the majority of the market.
  - olivermarks 9y ago
    exactly. It's a shame... written on old macbook air
Bud 9y ago
I see no reason to suspect that changing CPUs would be related in any way to "crippling" macOS. Those are two separate issues.
- api 9y ago
  They are separate issues, but history has shown that changes in architecture (or form factor) is often used as a pretext to also make other changes. Mobile transformed the computer into a portable surveillance and addictive media device aimed at the user rather than a personal computing device built for the user. Those are two separate issues of course -- there is nothing in mobile that mandates that it be designed to commoditize its users -- but the shift to mobile was used to also smuggle in a total inversion of the user/machine relationship. Apple is kind of a strange company. On one hand they have stuck up for the privacy and security of their users, but on the other hand they were a factor in this inversion of relationship. They weren't the only or even the primary factor, but the locked down nature of their iOS platform helped other actors such as Facebook and Google implement surveillance-capitalist and gamified attention-capitalist user experiences there. Whether or not I stick with Apple depends on whether or not they keep my computer mine even as they swap out the CPU. I could care less about the architecture as long as it performs well, but I do care about the nature of my relationship with the technology that I use. I care about this for both personal and professional/pragmatic reasons.

by api 9y ago

olivermarks 9y ago

I agree and it's unlikely my next laptop will be an Apple device...

schappim 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing, but Apple doesn't care. Folks like us do not represent the majority of the market.
- olivermarks 9y ago
  exactly. It's a shame... written on old macbook air

Bud 9y ago

I see no reason to suspect that changing CPUs would be related in any way to "crippling" macOS. Those are two separate issues.

api 9y ago
They are separate issues, but history has shown that changes in architecture (or form factor) is often used as a pretext to also make other changes. Mobile transformed the computer into a portable surveillance and addictive media device aimed at the user rather than a personal computing device built for the user. Those are two separate issues of course -- there is nothing in mobile that mandates that it be designed to commoditize its users -- but the shift to mobile was used to also smuggle in a total inversion of the user/machine relationship. Apple is kind of a strange company. On one hand they have stuck up for the privacy and security of their users, but on the other hand they were a factor in this inversion of relationship. They weren't the only or even the primary factor, but the locked down nature of their iOS platform helped other actors such as Facebook and Google implement surveillance-capitalist and gamified attention-capitalist user experiences there. Whether or not I stick with Apple depends on whether or not they keep my computer mine even as they swap out the CPU. I could care less about the architecture as long as it performs well, but I do care about the nature of my relationship with the technology that I use. I care about this for both personal and professional/pragmatic reasons.