It’s September 2016. Apple has just released the iPhone 7, with its first big.LITTLE CPU cores, then 4 days later macOS 10.12 Sierra. How does it transition from there to release the M1 in four years?
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Frameworks provide much of the macOS API. Over the last 5 years, the percentage of Private Frameworks has risen from 76% to 84%. Why is macOS becoming more private?
There are no changes for Sonoma and earlier macOS, and Sequoia 15.0-15.1.1 will also continue working as before. But 15.2 and later work differently, as explained here.
Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5284, […]
The macOS 15.2 update includes the second phase of AI support for Apple silicon Macs, introducing the Image […]
As eagerly anticipated, Apple has released the update to macOS 15.2 Sequoia, together with security updates to bring […]
A/UX was released for the Mac II in 1988, then in 1993 Apple changed course with a series of servers, before Mac OS X Server in 1999 and its first Xserves in 2002.
I first recall being caught by it in Mavericks 11 years ago. It has even changed the way I use Finder windows. It survived Covid and Apple silicon, and lives on in macOS Sequoia.
We were sat with the Weather app reviewing prospects for the weekend ahead, when we were warned of a significant threat to life or property requiring us to take action immediately.
A problem from the first 128K Mac, virtual memory was available from 1987 but only with A/UX. It wasn’t really sorted out until Mac OS X, and now it’s all Unified anyway.
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