I still use Apple and love it, but the hardware and software hasn’t yet moved away very far from what it started out as after the switch to OS X. You do realiz

I still use Apple and love it, but the hardware and software hasn’t yet moved away very far from what it started out as after the switch to OS X. You do realize Mac OS X 10.0 was released in March 2001. Here are the specs of the early 2001 iMac: It featured a 500 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, a 20 GB hard drive and a 56 kbps modem,was available in Indigo, Blue Dalmatian or Flower Power, and was priced at $1199 U.S. So yeah, we've come a long way. I can see development limited to a few approved vendors with deep pockets for expensive licensing, but the bulk of it coming from Apple. I doubt this will happen; there's no point. The recent release of Swift Playgrounds [1] for the Mac has the potential to create a new generation of Mac developers. Apple wouldn't have created Catalyst to increase the number of apps for the Mac by giving a path to iOS developers to bring their apps to macOS. Darwin isn't going anywhere; you'll still be able to run all of the Unix stuff, with the vast majority just needing to be compiled for ARM. Not to be pedantic, but sandboxed apps on macOS goes back to the 10.5 days. I just checked on my Catalina machine; most GUI apps are sandboxed, but none of the Unix apps are. By definition, sandboxing has to work differently on the Mac than it does on iOS. There's no doubt that Apple has to do better; the 10.15 Catalina release was way more buggy than we're used to seeing. Apple seems to have a lot of balls in the air, with macOS 10.16 coming in a few months at WWDC, plus new iOS, watchOS, tvOS and who knows what else. If the transition to ARM is going to happen about a year from now, that means there are alpha versions of macOS running on prototype ARM Macs right now. Hopefully, the Catalina release was a wakeup call for them to get their act together; guess we’ll know soon enough. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playgrounds/id1496833156 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swift-playgrounds/id1496833156