Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry
Attacker94@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIirc the general assumption in tech spaces was that ios and macos are going to merge in two or three major versions, so I would imagine that apple is aware of this want in their consumer base as well.
Eh, but will they? There’s a whole lot of OSX legacy Apple would have to throw away.
I mean, I guess they could; they’ve done it before with architecture transitions. But this is different in that stuff on existing devices would stop working, whereas Intel or PPC Macs keep chugging along.
Of all the PC manufacturers, Apple are the ones who are most likely to sweep away legacy standards.
Remember when they ditched DVD drives altogether, and the tech world threw a shit fit. When was the last time you saw a new laptop with a disc drive?
They did the same with the 30 pin connector. USB-A as well.
Of course, they can get away with it because they can also dictate which machines get which OS updates, so can entirely block devices that don’t have hardware they no longer want to support.
I always thought of it going the other way, leave osx relatively untouched and make phones run on it, rather than taking ios as the standard.
Nuh uh. No way they “open up” iOS to be more OSX-like, as that would spoil their cash cow (the App Store).
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The tech spaces have been saying that since 10.7 was released in 2011.