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>can Apple really assume the software will come for an ARM based Mac? This is what Catalyst is for, no? Mac software is now iPad software. Macs are now somewha
by trevyn 7y ago
>can Apple really assume the software will come for an ARM based Mac?
This is what Catalyst is for, no? Mac software is now iPad software. Macs are now somewhat more capable iPads. The golden age of computing is over.
- Mindwipe 7y agoI think even the most delusional Catalyst fan would admit Catalyst is nowhere near ready for prime time and will not be in the timescale for these supposed ARM Macs to launch, if ever.
- IAmEveryone 7y agoAdding catalyst didn’t remove the ability to use any other UIKit, or to compile and run whatever you want in any language there is. Everything that ran before continues to do so, and it’s almost oxymoronically wrong to consider a system that is a strict superset of another less free.
- trevyn 7y agoRight, and we could find ourselves in a time when any meaningful non-developer app is only available as a Catalyst app. It’s kind of how like Microsoft’s “embrace and extend” made us less free, because it’s actually “embrace, extend, and (later) extinguish”.