![]() With Jony gone I think the inexorable march toward laptop thinness is gone. (Indeed there’s speculation from Jason Snell and others that Apple could enable on the higher-RAM-specced iPad Pros a beta ARM macOS for development work.) I still have hopes for that multibook hardware, but I’m reading more about emulation and the comparative ease of making it work on ARM (speed is another question, though), so I have moved over to that camp. The reason I was a Rosetta2 skeptic was because I think Apple (a) should be able to relatively easily ARMify MAS apps (given developer requirements to submit bitcode, with good speculation for ARM here), (b) it would prefer to spur ARM development rather than let devs take years to port apps, and © a lot of slack from missing Intel apps could be met by iOS apps should Apple manufacture simultaneous-boot Mac/iOS iBooks. Narrator: “They’re definitely going to make them thinner.” Give me 2 actual full days of real use at full screen brightness while on battery, and then you can worry about making things thinner. not that I expect anyone at Apple is reading this, but please for the love of all that is holy do not focus on making ARM laptops thinner. ![]() nightmare, because every single story about ARM Macs would highlight that flaw, not to mention that customers who are already upset about losing 32-bit apps would now face having to wait for all of their apps to be re-compiled for ARM? No way.Įven if performance isn’t great and it hurts battery life, Apple wants every story about ARM Macs to include the line “And you’ll be able to run all of your existing apps!” That’s a completely different issue, of course, than a “Rosetta for current macOS apps to run on ARM-based Macs.” I cannot imagine that Apple would even consider not offering something like that. I don’t have a horse in this particular race, so it wouldn’t bother me if Boot Camp went away. Here, you’re able to go through everything Alfred has to offer. If it didn’t, click on the Alfred hat in the menu bar and then Preferences. ![]() The Alfred app preference window should open. Much of Stephen’s perspective was shaped by a conversation he recently had with Steve Troughton-Smith about this, and (for reasons explained in the episode) Stephen came away expecting that Boot Camp for ARM, while possible, seems very unlikely. When you open Alfred for Mac, it’ll request a few macOS permissions to be able to fully function make sure to grant them. (Just like they took the iPhone headphone jack away with the iPhone 7 rather than the iPhone 10/X/whatever to keep bad press from being associated with the new iPhone.)Ĭonnected #298: “You Bought a Monument” has a good discussion about ARM Macs, including virtualization / emulation, starting at the 40:34 mark. I think killing off 32-bit apps was at least partially motivated by the upcoming transition to ARM, and they did it when they did it to put the bad P.R.
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