A Snow Leopard move, at least for iOS, is what's on deck:
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-...
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-...
iOS 26 is slated to drop a bunch of iPhone models. macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.
A Snow Leopard release isn't great news for a lot of people.
> macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.
Those two cases are not really comparable though, are they? The last Intel CPU Mac was the 2019 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2023.
The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of hardware being left behind, and many of the devices that could have benefited the most from optimizations were cut off.
I still think it's unrealistic to expect 8+ years of OS updates for a computer even if you purchased it 5 years after its launch date.
The development of Mac OS X was the development of iOS, and it was one-way.
Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. "iPhone makes this much profit = iphone gets this much development".
That thinking has led us into this stagnated crap, because it's a terrible way to do software. Worse, what's happening now is apple is taking its iThing software and trying to migrate it to the mac. The Mac is now getting destroyed by the iPhone development.
That is the reason why.
Wow.
The smart move is further development of the Mac to explore ways to bring new features to the iPhone or future apple devices. To simply go "this = profit = all development goes there" personifies a lack of wisdom.