This is Apple’s roadmap for moving the first Macs away from Intel

After years of rumors, the inevitable has finally begun.

  • ARM Macs get a whole Apple SoC, with lots of components.

After 15 years, Apple will again transition the Mac to a new architecture. The company announced at its developer conference today that it will introduce Macs featuring Apple-designed, ARM-based processors similar to those already used in the iPhone and iPad.

Tim Cook pegged this switch as one of the four biggest transitions the Mac has ever had. Alongside the more to PowerPC, the move to Intel, and the transition to Mac OS X, ARM will be one of the biggest Mac changes ever. Apple is promising "a whole new level of performance" with a "Family of Mac SoCs.

Longtime Apple users have been through all this all been through this before, with the transition from PowerPC to Intel, and now for Intel x86 to ARM, all the big platform transition hits are coming back. The transition to ARM from x86 means that some Mac apps will be native and some won't. For apps that support both x86 and ARM, Apple is introducing the "Universal 2" binary that will package both codebases together. For apps that haven't made the transition to ARM yet, the Rosetta emulator is back as "Rosetta 2," and will now let x86 apps run on your ARM Mac, albeit with reduced performance.

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Apple announces macOS 10.16, “Big Sur,“ with an emphasis on design

The next big version of macOS has been announced at WWDC.

Apple announces macOS 10.16, “Big Sur,“ with an emphasis on design

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It's WWDC and today Apple is announcing the next big version of macOS "Big Sur" aka version 10.16. Big Sur, like the previous versions, is named after a region in California.

Big Sur comes with an "entirely new interface" with "refinements in buttons and controls" along with unified icons from iOS. Apps feature more transparency in the sidebar, and new menus.

Control Center has arrived on the mac too. There are sliders for the volume and display brightness. You can drag controls into the status bar for quick access. Widgets have been reworked with a gallery display view, and you can easily drag them into the side widget bar.

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iPad-Betriebssystem: iPadOS 14 macht Platz am Rand

iPadOS 14 heißt das neue Betriebssystem für iPads, das mit dem Bildschirmplatz ökonomischer umgeht. So wird die Grenze zu MacOS immer durchlässiger. (iPad, Apple)

iPadOS 14 heißt das neue Betriebssystem für iPads, das mit dem Bildschirmplatz ökonomischer umgeht. So wird die Grenze zu MacOS immer durchlässiger. (iPad, Apple)

iPadOS 14 brings Scribble handwriting recognition to iPads (with Apple Pencil), UI updates, and more

When Apple’s iPads first launched, they were basically oversized iPhones running a barely modified version of the iPhone operating system. But over time, Apple has added a growing number of iPad-specific features and spun out the operating system…

When Apple’s iPads first launched, they were basically oversized iPhones running a barely modified version of the iPhone operating system. But over time, Apple has added a growing number of iPad-specific features and spun out the operating system as iPadOS. Now Apple is introducing iPadOS 14. In addition to support for the same features coming […]

Apple’s new watchOS is coming this year with new health tracking features

Parental controls and a big under-the-hood change to apps headline the update.

Vice President of Technology at Apple, Kevin Lynch, took to the WWDC 2020 livestream today to lay out the company's plans for watchOS, the latest version of the software for the Apple Watch.

The new update—expected to launch later this year—adds new fitness features, watch faces, guidance for hand washing, and the long-awaited sleep tracking feature, among other things.

This story is developing. Check back or follow our liveblog for more details as they are announced.

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iOS 14 overhauls the home screen with widgets and App Library

More than a decade after Apple and Google started duking it out in the iPhone space, one of the key differences between iOS and Android has remained the home screen. While iPhones have dumped all your apps onto the home screen, Android has had an app d…

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