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"The move towards "iOSing" the OS."

People have been claiming this for literally a decade+ now. The death of macOS is perpetually imminent.

It's remarkable how overwhelmingly negative the comments on HN are to everything Apple does. The top comment is always some "this is the final straw...I'm leaving the platform" screed (if you look back, those people have usually made that declaration a dozen times), and everyone who claims anything contrary is pushed to transparent.

HN needs to go out and take a walk and get some perspective. What a bunch of sour assholes.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have been writing Apple software since 1986. I have stuck with them through a lot of abuse.

They just turned 1.5 trillion. I don't think they are losing a whole lot of sleep over it.

> The death of macOS is perpetually imminent.

The same for PowerPC processors, Intel processsors, and now ARM processors.

Remember when the first rumors of Apple switching to ARM surfaced? I think it was about five years ago.

To be fair, Apple has been on its "deathbed" a hundred times, in the last three decades. I have been programming Apple since 1986. I have seen quite a bit.

To be fair, they nearly did bite the bullet until Microsoft stepped in with that loan (for entirely non altruistic reasons on their part of course).

This is true. I think they also brought stock. I wonder if MS hung onto any stock? It would have been a pretty good investment.

And we have made strides in the decade towards that then in the years prior.

Sip and custom delivery of software are increasingly difficult.

Did you miss the big announcement that arm macbooks will run iOS apps unmodified?

Do you think you'll be able to run an non apple signed kernel on aarch64 macbooks?

I guess we'll find out a couple of weeks once the DTKs ship.

Maybe? The Intel DTKs had a very different boot process with a normal BIOS instead of EFI.

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