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Apple internally must be a constant battle between those who want to unify iOS and macOS and those who understand they’re different systems with different purposes, and need different treatment.

Craig Federighi was a strong proponent of the latter camp but maybe he’s just getting on in years. Goes to show that key people being good and caring a lot can be all that stops things from backsliding.

So the battle for macOS is being slowly lost. Lucky we have KDE.

If it keeps going this way my next laptop won’t have that fruit logo. And that is a real shame.

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I remember many years ago (Snow Leopard) I liked Apple's OS enough to build a hackintosh, because the hardware wasn't great (subjective opinion).

Now I like the hardware enough, but have been gradually annoyed enough with the OS that I'd much rather be running Linux. At least I can just turn off most of the "modern" features, but I'm in that "keeping an eye out for potential alternatives" phase.

I've been quite frustrated today with my Jabra headset constantly triggering Apple Music.

There are plenty of mandatory features we unfortunately can't uninstall. I can't think of a scenario where I want Apple music on my work laptop.

I use https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes to fix this "feature"

I relate to this. I loved Snow Leopard. I used Hackintosh. Now there is no way I want to use that OS and there are just too many reasons to list by now.

Mojave was the last macOS version that had any features I cared about. Now each release is about how bad did they trash the macOS UI. Switching to Linux has been great.

I’d love to switch to Linux but it seems impossible as someone who relies on macOS / logic for music production. I’m in too deep and feel like the floor is coming out from under me with all these insane changes and the direction Apple is taking

I know they’re different workflows entirely, but you could start dabbling with Bitwig, which is really good and runs on both macOS and Linux, then eventually switch when you feel like you’re out of the workflow hole

But to be honest, I’m still using Bitwig on a Mac for my studio despite having switched everywhere else to Linux

For me, it was Mountain Lion. Otherwise, much the same.

How are the ARM Linux on Mac projects going? Does anybody daily drive those yet?

Actually lately iPadOS is the one getting most of its features from macOS. iPadOS 26 introduced a menu bar, just like macOS, and a new windows manager that's just the same as macOS.

I feel like this is more of a calculated step towards eliminating macOS, because iPadOS can do "everything" too.

I expect it will happen within a few years after Xcode for iPad is released. MacOS is simply too open for Apple's business goals.

Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

Or do you really think that all their apps and toolsets will run on whatever you are saying is the future of macOS.

Those are more likely to continue working as they mostly work within the lines defined by the apple developer spec. The most likely workflows to break are those of programmers, as they require frequent execution of untrusted binaries and access to the system directories in some cases

I think macOS will go the way of the Mac Pro. It won't be cut off, it will simply atrophy over time.

As more MBP fundamentals are ported to iPad Pro, that will naturally convert more Mac users to iPads, especially the iPhone generation.

> Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

"We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company" skit perfectly applies to Apple these days ( https://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml ).

A middle manager from Apple will easily toss all of Hollywood under the bus if it gets them a checkbox "shipped new toggle switch experience" and a promotion. And the upper management at Apple long since stopped caring about that.

> Do you really think that Apple would alienate the big creative industries like Hollywood movie studios who use macOS?

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Final Cut Pro X? I thought not. It's not a story Apple fanboys would tell you...

I think this change makes sense on both platforms. If you're gonna use it as an example of why merging the platforms is bad, I think you just strengthen the opposite argument.

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