No, Apple won’t be dumping Intel chips for ARM, you crazies

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1 point·TomOfTTB··4 comments

Apple clearly has a long term goal that involves moving to their own processors. But the article that claimed it would happen as early as 2013 is ridiculous IMHO.

Apple's goal for the next 5 to 10 years is to move developers to the iOS APIs. Once they do that they can slowly start transitioning to their own processors in the desktop.

But to do it in the next product generation or two would require them creating a virtual environment to support old Mac programs on their processors and I just don't see that happening.

I think, that much more important to Apple is to migrate off their antiquated Objective-C.

In the next 5 to 10 years developers will move to new modern and shiny languages and new CPU architecture will not help there.

I sincerely doubt this will ever happen. Objective-C never made sense. It was brought over from NeXT and Steve Jobs has shown an absolute dedication to it. So even though no one else was using it Jobs threw all the other Mac tools out and replaced them with Objective-C and XCode (which at the time was Project Builder)

To this day every Mac development tool out there still finds its origins in NeXTstep and Apple's hasn't even hinted at changing that (in fact they've adopted SproutCore in their web projects which is a tool built to emulate the current Mac Desktop development model)

Compare and contrast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521802

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520685

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511721

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