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The relevant quote: "[...] Last year, the Air was finally upgraded to a much-needed higher definition Retina display and Touch ID access module, and was updated
by Fnoord 7y ago
The relevant quote: "[...] Last year, the Air was finally upgraded to a much-needed higher definition Retina display and Touch ID access module, and was updated again with display and processor tweaks; and all Pros now have a Touch Bar.
So Mac laptops just got simpler and saner. [...]"
I would guess the analogy of "simpler and saner" would be streamlined, more homogeneous.
The term "fork" is also misleading. All what is needed is once more universal/fat binaries which work on both architectures. macOS cannot be forked in the traditional FOSS sense; there are too many proprietary components for that.
A little of history on the author, Jean-Louis Gassée, can be found here on Wikipedia [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e
- perl4ever 7y ago"The term "fork" is also misleading. All what is needed is once more universal/fat binaries which work on both architectures. macOS cannot be forked in the traditional FOSS sense; there are too many proprietary components for that." This has a double meaning, because the original "fat binaries" used the resource and data "forks" to store the difference versions. In fact, I thought you had misunderstood until I checked the article.
- HelloNurse 7y agoFunction keys that I can press by touch are simpler and saner than looking at a "touchbar".