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The message has been clear for years now. It was re-iterated in WWDC videos and various interviews. The Mac is the Mac. It has been and will continue to be the

The message has been clear for years now. It was re-iterated in WWDC videos and various interviews. The Mac is the Mac. It has been and will continue to be the machine where you can install software not approved by Apple, turn off security, and otherwise poke at the system. You can still create your own kext caches and mount the root filesystem as read-write on Apple Silicon. The procedure has changed but the ability to do it has not. I really honestly don't know how much clearer it can be.

api 6y ago
It wouldn't make sense for them to do otherwise. The Mac has its market and a large proportion of that market demands those abilities. Why turn the Mac into iPadOS when they have iPadOS already? What they are accomplishing by going to their own silicon is eliminating the need to maintain the Mac as a completely different hardware and driver line. Now the Mac is just a bigger higher specced clamshell iPad with MacOS, and MacOS is the same kernel and mostly the same drivers as iPadOS and iOS but different security policies and a somewhat different user space. It's sort of like a different Linux distribution with a different window manager and different defaults. I think this will make the Mac better because now it can benefit from all the product dev and R&D being done for iDevices, and vice versa. All those neat features in the high end iPad can now be considered for the Mac. It would not shock me if they someday allowed the Mac to run iPadOS either if the user so chooses, or vice versa, via some reinstall process.