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This transition would be fun to watch. Mac has a huge legacy, enormous amounts of apps and sometimes it is embedded deeply in a lot of workflows that it would b
by inapis 6y ago
This transition would be fun to watch. Mac has a huge legacy, enormous amounts of apps and sometimes it is embedded deeply in a lot of workflows that it would be very challenging to displace. Unlike the PowerPC -> Intel transition, this time round, Apple has the iOS ecosystem to tap into.
We'll probably still have 4-5 years before the Intel Macs are completely abandoned but then this is Apple we are talking about. For all intents and purposes, they might cut the umbilical cord in 6 months.
Adobe is probably the only company which can delay the complete transition for some time.
Edit - removed the line about electron. As others have pointed out, electron already runs on ARM.
- xuki 6y ago> For all intents and purposes, they might cut the umbilical cord in 6 months. No, they're selling the Mac Pro today. Intel support is not going away anytime soon.
- mv9 6y ago> This probably might mean the death knell for Electron Electron already runs on ARM-powered Windows laptops [1]. [1] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/windows-arm https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/windows-arm
- kryptiskt 6y agoElectron is basically Chromium and node.js, if those two won't run it won't be much of a Mac.
- tinus_hn 6y agoApple threw away a lot of that legacy by not supporting 32 bit apps anymore and the world did not stop turning.
- tgv 6y agoOTOH, the world continues using 10.14 Mojave. At least, I do.
- whynotminot 6y agoYeah, I've transitioned my main Mac laptop to Catalina, but I keep my Mini on Mojave because it does happen every once in a while that I need to run a 32 bit app. I can't afford to be all in on Catalina at this time.
- dundarious 6y agoTrue, but people are still buying new Macs that start on Catalina, and the non-HN crowd is almost entirely oblivious.