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"The move towards "iOSing" the OS." People have been claiming this for literally a decade+ now. The death of macOS is perpetually imminent.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
> The death of macOS is perpetually imminent. The same for PowerPC processors, Intel processsors, and now ARM processors. Remember when the first rumors of Apple switching to ARM surfaced? I think it was about five years ago. To be fair, Apple has been on its "deathbed" a hundred times, in the last three decades. I have been programming Apple since 1986. I have seen quite a bit.
- thejynxed 6y ago
  To be fair, they nearly did bite the bullet until Microsoft stepped in with that loan (for entirely non altruistic reasons on their part of course).
  - ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
    This is true. I think they also brought stock. I wonder if MS hung onto any stock? It would have been a pretty good investment.
defnotashton2 6y ago
And we have made strides in the decade towards that then in the years prior. Sip and custom delivery of software are increasingly difficult.
hn_check 6y ago
It's remarkable how overwhelmingly negative the comments on HN are to everything Apple does. The top comment is always some "this is the final straw...I'm leaving the platform" screed (if you look back, those people have usually made that declaration a dozen times), and everyone who claims anything contrary is pushed to transparent. HN needs to go out and take a walk and get some perspective. What a bunch of sour assholes.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
  I can't speak for anyone else, but I have been writing Apple software since 1986. I have stuck with them through a lot of abuse. They just turned 1.5 trillion. I don't think they are losing a whole lot of sleep over it.
monocasa 6y ago
Did you miss the big announcement that arm macbooks will run iOS apps unmodified? Do you think you'll be able to run an non apple signed kernel on aarch64 macbooks?
- saagarjha 6y ago
  I guess we'll find out a couple of weeks once the DTKs ship.
  - monocasa 6y ago
    Maybe? The Intel DTKs had a very different boot process with a normal BIOS instead of EFI.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

> The death of macOS is perpetually imminent. The same for PowerPC processors, Intel processsors, and now ARM processors. Remember when the first rumors of Apple switching to ARM surfaced? I think it was about five years ago. To be fair, Apple has been on its "deathbed" a hundred times, in the last three decades. I have been programming Apple since 1986. I have seen quite a bit.

thejynxed 6y ago
To be fair, they nearly did bite the bullet until Microsoft stepped in with that loan (for entirely non altruistic reasons on their part of course).
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
  This is true. I think they also brought stock. I wonder if MS hung onto any stock? It would have been a pretty good investment.

defnotashton2 6y ago

And we have made strides in the decade towards that then in the years prior. Sip and custom delivery of software are increasingly difficult.

hn_check 6y ago

It's remarkable how overwhelmingly negative the comments on HN are to everything Apple does. The top comment is always some "this is the final straw...I'm leaving the platform" screed (if you look back, those people have usually made that declaration a dozen times), and everyone who claims anything contrary is pushed to transparent. HN needs to go out and take a walk and get some perspective. What a bunch of sour assholes.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but I have been writing Apple software since 1986. I have stuck with them through a lot of abuse. They just turned 1.5 trillion. I don't think they are losing a whole lot of sleep over it.

monocasa 6y ago

Did you miss the big announcement that arm macbooks will run iOS apps unmodified? Do you think you'll be able to run an non apple signed kernel on aarch64 macbooks?

saagarjha 6y ago
I guess we'll find out a couple of weeks once the DTKs ship.
- monocasa 6y ago
  Maybe? The Intel DTKs had a very different boot process with a normal BIOS instead of EFI.