If you delay upgrading to the new version of macOS until its x.3 or x.4 release, will that spare you from most of the bugs and problems? Explored with data from Sequoia and Tahoe.
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Analysis of bundle counts in /System/Library and bundled apps from Mojave and Catalina to Golden Gate shows how much they’ve changed over the last 7 years.
Analyses of numbers of bundles in the /System folder and significant folders within that, for macOS 10.14.5 Mojave to 26.2 Tahoe. These show how private macOS has become.
How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?
The differences between bundles and packages, the differences between app and framework bundles. What you can find inside them, and where to look.
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?
How has the System changed in numbers since Mojave? Why has the number of kernel extensions risen since their deprecation? Why so many Private Frameworks?
SwiftUI is almost five years old. Following experience porting an AppKit app for macOS to SwiftUI, it still has a long way to go. Here’s the current state of play.
Can you strip all Intel executables from a Universal App to make it even smaller? What benefits might there be in building an app for Big Sur only?
How many apps should launch faster, deliver better performance, be smaller, and use less memory than they have in the past.
