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Re:The Mac is not an Open Platform anymore by roody15 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:34PM (#23623740)
Macs will not only become locked down consoles ... but will just become a system that nickel and dimes you with subscription services left and right. Where simple app functionality that is freely distributed is now repackaged and sold at a 5.99$ per month for the β€œpro” version.

Most people need computers to work . Give me a break.

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Re:The Mac is not an Open Platform anymore by OldHand2018 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:19AM (#23624049)
> Macs will not only become locked down consoles ... but will just become a system that nickel and dimes you with subscription services left and right

Maybe, I suppose.

But if you watch their other video from the first day of WWDC [1], at about the 20 minute mark they mention that they've already ported a bunch of open source tools to MacOS ARM64:

Bgfx Blender Boost Skia Zlib-Ng Chromium cmake Electron FFmpeg Halide Swift Shader Homebrew MacPorts Mono nginx nmap Node OpenCV OpenEXR OpenJDK SSE2Neon Pixar USD QT Python 3 Redis Cineform CFHD NumPy Go V8

And they say they will start contributing those ports upstream now that they've done the announcement.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/102/

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Re:The Mac is not an Open Platform anymore by nightowl_games on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:43AM (#23624487)
Will these ports help Raspberry Pi versions of the same programs?
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Re:The Mac is not an Open Platform anymore by Thev00d00 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:18AM (#23625469)
I doubt it as they likely run flawlessly on the Pi already thanks to community efforts.

If anything apples "porting" will have benefited from the Pi not the other way round

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