Comment by londons_explore

3 hours ago

And I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.

It was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.

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musictubes  2 hours ago

Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.

You can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.

  • londons_explore  2 hours ago

    It will still run arbitrary code... Within macos...

    But they'll remove support for other OS's

    • willy_k  32 minutes ago

      What support? Asahi had to fight to exist, especially early on when they essentially had to reimplement much of the graphics pipeline. And now its in mainline linux - short of a complete hostile lockdown of the bootloader, it’s not like they support other OS’s very much as is.

  • r_lee  2 hours ago

    I mean it'd be pretty easy for Apple to just make a special version of the OS/bootloader/whatever for their internal use