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A Snow Leopard move, at least for iOS, is what's on deck: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-be-like-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/ https://ww

A Snow Leopard move, at least for iOS, is what's on deck: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-be-like-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-...

ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
A major reason Snow Leopard was well received was because of how performant it felt along with the bug fixes. What isn't mentioned anywhere near as much is that it dropped a lot of hardware (PPC). The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped. iOS 26 is slated to drop a bunch of iPhone models. macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs. A Snow Leopard release isn't great news for a lot of people.
- selcuka 5mo ago
  > The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped. > macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs. Those two cases are not really comparable though, are they? The last Intel CPU Mac was the 2019 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2023.
  - ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
    Aren't they? The last Intel macs were being sold less than 3y ago, and by the time macOS 27 releases they'll be less than 3.5y old. The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of hardware being left behind, and many of the devices that could have benefited the most from optimizations were cut off.
  - asimovDev 5mo ago
    they also used to sell 2018 intel mac minis alongside it for a while as well, didn't they?
    - selcuka 5mo ago
      Those were discontinued in 2023, too. I still think it's unrealistic to expect 8+ years of OS updates for a computer even if you purchased it 5 years after its launch date.
fchicken 5mo ago
Great... yet more attention on iOS
- robotresearcher 5mo ago
  Roughly 1.75 billion to 250 million installed OSes, according to public estimates. 7 to 1 ratio.
  - fchicken 5mo ago
    The numbers don't tell the full story. The development of Mac OS X was the development of iOS, and it was one-way.
    - robotresearcher 5mo ago
      How does that matter to where the attention is paid today?
      - fchicken 5mo ago
        Everything (or 90%) on the iphone was taken from the mac and put into the iPhone. The software dvelopment for the PC environment, then stripped down and streamlined for the phone is why the iPhone was the revolution that it was. Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. "iPhone makes this much profit = iphone gets this much development". That thinking has led us into this stagnated crap, because it's a terrible way to do software. Worse, what's happening now is apple is taking its iThing software and trying to migrate it to the mac. The Mac is now getting destroyed by the iPhone development. That is the reason why.
        robotresearcher 5mo ago
        > Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. Wow.

ProfessorLayton 5mo ago

A major reason Snow Leopard was well received was because of how performant it felt along with the bug fixes. What isn't mentioned anywhere near as much is that it dropped a lot of hardware (PPC). The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped. iOS 26 is slated to drop a bunch of iPhone models. macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs. A Snow Leopard release isn't great news for a lot of people.

selcuka 5mo ago
> The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped. > macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs. Those two cases are not really comparable though, are they? The last Intel CPU Mac was the 2019 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2023.
- ProfessorLayton 5mo ago
  Aren't they? The last Intel macs were being sold less than 3y ago, and by the time macOS 27 releases they'll be less than 3.5y old. The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of hardware being left behind, and many of the devices that could have benefited the most from optimizations were cut off.
- asimovDev 5mo ago
  they also used to sell 2018 intel mac minis alongside it for a while as well, didn't they?
  - selcuka 5mo ago
    Those were discontinued in 2023, too. I still think it's unrealistic to expect 8+ years of OS updates for a computer even if you purchased it 5 years after its launch date.

fchicken 5mo ago

Great... yet more attention on iOS

robotresearcher 5mo ago
Roughly 1.75 billion to 250 million installed OSes, according to public estimates. 7 to 1 ratio.
- fchicken 5mo ago
  The numbers don't tell the full story. The development of Mac OS X was the development of iOS, and it was one-way.
  - robotresearcher 5mo ago
    How does that matter to where the attention is paid today?
    - fchicken 5mo ago
      Everything (or 90%) on the iphone was taken from the mac and put into the iPhone. The software dvelopment for the PC environment, then stripped down and streamlined for the phone is why the iPhone was the revolution that it was. Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. "iPhone makes this much profit = iphone gets this much development". That thinking has led us into this stagnated crap, because it's a terrible way to do software. Worse, what's happening now is apple is taking its iThing software and trying to migrate it to the mac. The Mac is now getting destroyed by the iPhone development. That is the reason why.
      - robotresearcher 5mo ago
        > Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. Wow.