Apple needs to widen the gap between late Intel and Apple silicon Macs without locking Intel Macs out, mature Stage Manager, fix System Settings, and more.
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In just over a month, Apple is expected to announce macOS 14. How many Intel Macs without T2 chips are likely to be supported? What about their firmware?
Trying macOS betas, support for Catalina, is the M1 dead, and what does the ANE do all day? What should come from WWDC this year.
Apple should announce macOS 12 next week, but which Mac models will support it? Look in the firmware, not the tea-leaves for this speculative list.
APFS adds 6 volume roles, including one which supports Time Machine backups. And per-file encryption is coming.
WWDC provided more pieces for the jigsaw of the Mac’s future, but there’s one significant piece still missing.
macOS 11 Big Sur comes with the promise of Macs with Apple’s own processors later this year. So what changes?
What has distinguished this year isn’t the pandemic, police murders, or Apple’s intransigence, but the complete intolerance which we are showing to one another.
Will they be locked down completely, or run iPadOS? How could they run existing Mac apps? Some potential answers.
Without addressing shortcomings in tools and maturity of macOS, 10.16 has flawed foundations, and is likely to fall flat.
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