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@CaseySJ I don't want to hijack this thread—we should throw this convo onto a separate thread—but it would be great to hear your thoughts on this. My two cents:
- It is too soon to tell exactly how ARM hardware will shape macOS, but based on Apple's approach in other domains it is fair to conjecture this will make macOS less malleable and further out of reach
- If so, this would specifically hamstring the Hackintosh community who have relied on the relative universality of Intel binaries and chipsets to get macOS to work across non-mac devices
- This could prompt a backlash against Apple from a core of pro users who have stood by the company through some considerable missteps. I'm thinking here of the multi-year keyboard debacle and Apple's incessant drive towards making devices minutely slimmer at the expense of things pro users actually want, like upgradeable storage, better batteries, and escape keys.
- By contrast, Apple's browbeaten rivals in Microsoft have dramatically upped their game by courting the developer community. Visual Studio Code is now ubiquitous (and rightly so, because it is superb), and Microsoft's purchase of Github (and derivatively NPM) and their continued support for those ecosystems demonstrates a really, really strong counterpoint to any "walled garden" Apple may be building.
- Conclusion? This is gonna be an interesting fight to watch.
