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The Mac is the Mac. Apple Silicon doesn’t change that. You can set boot args, disable security, and other things the Mac has historically supported. In fact the
by xenadu02 6y ago
The Mac is the Mac. Apple Silicon doesn’t change that. You can set boot args, disable security, and other things the Mac has historically supported. In fact these things are required to develop 3rd-party kernel extensions which are still supported on Apple Silicon.
- jasonhansel 6y agoBut will Apple let you run iOS apps in an environment where you can break iOS security guarantees? I suspect that this is the beginning of the end for sideloaded apps.
- xenadu02 6y agoI don't know how much clearer things can be. The Mac remains a Mac. It can run software from outside the App Store. That applies to Apple Silicon. This was specifically called out in the SOTU stream.
- ArgyleSound 6y agoThe Platform State of the Union presentation made a particularly big deal of “this is the Mac and the things you expect from the Mac will function as they always did”, and demonstrating things like showing the iOS app container file and moving it around.