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   Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:49:23 JST Jer Warren

   The rumor about Apple trying to eat the Chromebook market feels like a really great next step toward the future I think we all know is coming: a descendent of iPadOS running on MacBook-shaped hardware, eventually to replace macOS altogether.According to a report from Digitimes citing industry sources, Apple is working on a new low-cost MacBook series aimed at the education sector and primarily targets Chromebooks as its rivals. This laptop will be launched as a separate lineup from the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro.I've been saying for years that, when they decide to do it, all Apple will actually need to do to pull this off is make Xcode only run on this new OS. Developers will grumble for a few days, but if they were going to actually stop developing for Apple's platforms, they would have done it years ago 🤷

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:49:26 JST Jer Warren

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     • tekhedd

     @tekhedd@byteheaven.net you mean you wish mastodon supported reactions :)

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     tekhedd (tekhedd@byteheaven.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:49:28 JST tekhedd

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     @nyquildotorg This is where I wish Fedi supported reactions, because my entire response to the inevitability of Apple killing MacOS and replacing it with iPad is completely summed up in the "crying a single tear emoji".

     😢

     When I say it's the "end of an era" do I mean the era of Apple making fun computing products? Do I mean the era of "competition in the personal computing space?" Do I mean the era of "having your own computer that you control at all in any way whatsoever?" Well sorta, yeah.