Comment by benologist | Hacker News Reader

Comment by benologist | Hacker News Reader

I think Apple should open source macOS so it can be decoupled from their hardware, or just start cloning it in open source against their wishes as was done to Windows.

Otherwise it's time we let macOS go because Apple plans for it to run iOS apps and to use their iOS processors in their computers, so we and our tools and software are approaching obsolete and when iOS devices can compile apps we will start being redundant too.

Even if they released new hardware for us tomorrow it would be coupled with iOS processors and how many generations of having both processors can we really expect?

Until server ARM processors are compatible with iOS processors we are eventually going to lose parity with all the server software that made MacBooks good developer platforms too.

"I think Apple should open source macOS so it can be decoupled from their hardware, or just start cloning it in open source against their wishes as was done to Windows."

Why on earth would Apple want to remove one of their biggest competitive advantages?

"Otherwise it's time we let macOS go because Apple plans for it to run iOS apps and to use their iOS processors in their computers, so we and our tools and software are approaching obsolete and when iOS devices can compile apps we will start being redundant too."

Citation Needed. They have a toolkit that will allow iOS apps to be recompiled to macOS apps. That's about it.

"Even if they released new hardware for us tomorrow it would be coupled with iOS processors and how many generations of having both processors can we really expect?"

What the hell is an "iOS processor"?

It’s not to directly run iOS apps, but to make it easy to adapt them.

We also don’t have any evidence of a change in processors.

Please stop presenting speculation as facts.

You're right we have no evidence of them working on iOS-based computers. But obviously anything future-looking is speculation. The only two Macs they have upgraded in years were upgraded to include iOS processors that already inherited some macOS responsibilities. Everything else is very stagnant for so long the blogger sought a successor, despite Apple having great options from Intel and AMD and infinite resources.

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