micabe2006

narwhal said:

rain22 said:

Mac users will be stuck using dumbed down iOS software for a long time I feel.  

Here's news for you, Rain. Very few new apps are written for macOS (or Windows). Apps today are developed for the web, iOS and Android.

 @narwhal: It may look that way but ALOT more programs are X86/64 The rest of the world decided to settle on x86. See that console gaming industry. Most LOB (Line of business) is x86. Real gaming on the mac is dead. Steam will not run on new ARM macs. So all those games that people bought on steam will be worthless for those who own these new ARM macs. Also when it comes to programs, There is Photoshop for ipad which is what your ARM mac will run and then there is REAL Photoshop with all of the x86/64 plugins that people have made. I wonder if they will port their plugins to the new ARM photoshop. Will the ARM photoshop even run plugins. The same is true for office will you get ipad office on ARM or REAL office that you do now? Also this is after Apple throws you out in the cold by stripping roseta2  away from you as they did is mac OS 10.7 i believe. Lets also not forget that wonderful smooth transition from 32-64 bit only apps that nearly killed Steam on the mac. Also how nice will apple play with developers and users once they have hegemony. Apple silicon is the ultimate lock in. I can see apple using gatekeeper to make their platforms only use the mac app store. That means you new $899-$10,000 mac is a glorified locked in ipad with a keyboard and mouse. At least with intel macs you can run crossover to get older 32-bit versions of windows apps and wine. Will you get that on your ARM mac. Lets not forget this is the same company that will not let you change your default web browser, or maps app in iOS because they want total control of the user experience. I bet you this will be coming to a mac near you, in mac OS 11.3 or whatever they are going to call it. This is a sad day for the computing industry indeed, if the market falls for Apple and their lock in scam.

appleexpat said:

pjorlando said:

That’s unfortunate 

Not just unfortunate but really sucks. I think they did it on purpose so people would have to buy more of their products. They designed that chip from the ground up surely the designers were not stupid. This was intentional I reckon. How can such a powerful chipset with supposedly high bragging specs not be able to run two 4K monitors..?

I agree; I think this is intentional. I understand Apple wants to sell computers & preferably higher end computers; However,I think more people would buy their products if their base models supported features old mac's had just 3 years ago & ANY windows computer from $300-$1,000. I Think Apple is taking their customer base severely for granted.

I find this decision to be VERY concerning. Right now with Intel macs you can "Side load" any mac program you download from the web. You can even load windows programs with wine/crossover. But on Apple M1 Apple is going to GREAT length to block the loading of iOS apps that presumably you bought. Even if you did pirate/steal a program. Apple is not going to any great length to block. this behavior on Intel mac. Why do this with the M1 (arm) mac. I find this concerning. The fact of the matter is, I payed Apple for an M1 computer, this computer is mine I own is and I should be able to decide what I want to run on it. I am not leasing the computer from Apple it is my computer, license terms or not. I don't see Microsoft or any Linux distro team making it harder to run software from "side loading" This type of behavior will drive people away from the apple platform. I was concerned about this when Apple announced this transition to the ARM architecture. Apple is proving my point, some time in the future we will need to jailbreak out Mac desktop or laptop computers to run anything outside of the Mac app store. Then Mac OS will become nothing more the iOS with a finder GUI on the top of it. Apple fighting SO had to block iOS apps is a prime example of this.