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Many things could go wrong, but the Apple codebases and engineering processes should be pretty robust to architecture changes at this point. NeXT went from 6803
by edbaskerville 8y ago
Many things could go wrong, but the Apple codebases and engineering processes should be pretty robust to architecture changes at this point. NeXT went from 68030 to Intel/SPARC/others, and then to PowerPC with Mac OS X. OS X went from PowerPC to Intel. And large chunks of it are shared with iOS on ARM already.
(Fun fact: even classic Mac OS was running on Intel at one point before the 680x0-to-PowerPC transition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project)
So there's good reason to think that they could pull this off.
- rusk 8y agoThat’s an awful lot of hope
- charlesism 8y agoI have very little confidence it will be a smooth transition this time. Apple now is not the same people, and not the same culture as it was then. I don't see them sweating the details over Mac hardware.