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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Spooky23 on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:30PM (#16739556)
The problem is that Apple’s focus on this distracts from the software that defines the user experience. The MacOS ecosystem is both beautiful and deeply troubled.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by npunt on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:51PM (#16739724)
On the other hand, with Marzipan (shared libraries on iOS/MacOS) and a single processor architecture, you could say that Apple is putting 'more wood behind fewer arrows' and will have more engineers developing software that reaches MacOS as a result.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by wintercharm on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:02AM (#16742039)
> The MacOS ecosystem is both beautiful and deeply troubled.

So, shifting it to ARM and letting universal apps in the iOS App store now run on macOS in addition to iPad opens up the mac to a metric fuckton of developers that are happy to make cross-platform apps, since the iOS app store is SO lucrative.

Apple showed, with the iPad which was a totally new product category, that the sheer number of iOS developers could push the iPad from a platform with zero apps to the best tablet in the world (with an incredible app ecosystem) and universal apps who's UI adapt to the screen they're made for.

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