There is a saying that the big fish always eats the small one. Viewing the project Apple silicon, the saying has been turned upside down. iPhone has eaten the Mac. It is not necessary to explain the well-known history of the birth of the company and its evolution, and see where it is now.
Macs have always followed their parallel and independent path to the development and evolution of the iPhone and later of their brothers the iPads. But Apple has decided that the Mac freight train will abandon its slow lane, and join the fast lane of iPhones and iPads. In time we will see if it has been a hit or miss.
After finishing the Keynote presentation of WWDC 2020 last Monday, Apple released the first beta of Big Sur macOS, and the developers did not have time to download it and start testing it.
And when the changes are very significant, there are always lovers and detractors. Many developers have posted on Twitter, personal blogs or YouTube their discomfort criticizing the new design, being very similar to the current one iPadOS. It seems that Apple is laying the groundwork to bring touch support to the Mac in the near future.
Many have pointed out that macOS Big Sur items appear to have been made for touch input. Even some programmers who have tried it on small screen MacBooks have a tendency to touch screen thinking they are using an iPad.
Apple has brought the control center from iOS to macOS Big Sur. The layout of the controls looks very similar to iOS and does not appear to have been tuned for use of the mouse and its pointer on Mac computers. The company is already planning to make its own ARM chips for the Mac, so it would not be a surprise if Apple creates a hybrid between a Mac and an iPad.
Soon there will be no difference between an iPad and a MacBook
How Macs Will Soon Be Able To Run iOS Apps After The Release Of Based Macs ARM (Apple Silicon), this unification is already perceived by seeing the beta of macOS Big Sur.
The dock on the Mac has also been redesigned with a new set of icons. Many users have complained about the design of these new icons, however, Apple's vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi You have already said that you are aware that it will take time for users to get used to it.
In the Developer Transition Kit (DTK) released by Apple, comes a Mac mini with a processor A12Z Bionic, the same chip found in the iPad Pro. With that all said. As the iPad and Mac begin to share some features like mouse support on the iPad, it wouldn't be surprising to see a touchscreen on future Macs or a detachable iPad / Mac hybrid, for example.
The Apple Silicon project a priori seems a very risky bet, with unpredictable results in the medium and long term. The company has explained that a few more models of Macs with Intel chips will be released, before making the change. But it has also released the developer kit with the Mac mini ARM. Weird, weird.
But it's Apple, and anything can happen. When Tim Cook introduced the first Apple Watch five years ago, I was one of those who thought it would be a failure. A $ 500 digital watch that is useless if you don't have an iPhone in your pocket? Currently more than 60 million Apple Watch have been sold. So I reserve my opinion on Apple Silicon….