There are certainly many signs over the last few years that point to ARM Macs.
I don't mind what CPU my Mac runs on, but I am worried about how long I'll be able to play older games, run the occasional Windows/Linux software, and dabble in OS hacking or low-level tinkering to add custom features, on the same machine.
The seemingly gradual lockdown of macOS – mandatory "notarization", moving system files to a read-only volume, and disallowing kernel extensions in the future* – has generated some concern where before I used to just trust Apple to know what's best for everyone.
I welcome the extra security as long as we can manually bypass it if we really want to, but I warily wonder if the move to ARM Macs will come with a macOS that is almost as locked-down or "sanitized" as iOS.
* As mentioned during this WWDC's Platforms State of the Union.
I don't mind what CPU my Mac runs on, but I am worried about how long I'll be able to play older games, run the occasional Windows/Linux software, and dabble in OS hacking or low-level tinkering to add custom features, on the same machine.
The seemingly gradual lockdown of macOS – mandatory "notarization", moving system files to a read-only volume, and disallowing kernel extensions in the future* – has generated some concern where before I used to just trust Apple to know what's best for everyone.
I welcome the extra security as long as we can manually bypass it if we really want to, but I warily wonder if the move to ARM Macs will come with a macOS that is almost as locked-down or "sanitized" as iOS.
* As mentioned during this WWDC's Platforms State of the Union.