Jonathan

It really is! I can’t wait for the future where I take a couple cheap and used M1 Mac minis and run Linux servers on them.

Yes, there absolutely is a lot of integrations and even if a consumer level SoC existed that could run arm64 macOS, it might not last long as all Apple would have to do is slightly change some aspect of their particular architecture and it would stop working. I don’t expect it to ever happen, but then again, I never expected macOS on x86 either.

Asahi, by the way, it’s astounding how far they’ve come with porting over to Apple Silicon. I haven’t had the itch strong enough yet to give it a go, but I will eventually.

An interesting and, sadly, accurate read. I will miss building my Hacks, but I knew as soon as Apple announced their switch to arm64 that the good times were over.

Maybe sometime in the future we’ll have a powerful and open arm64 system that we can somehow run Apple Silicon macOS on?

I don’t think so, not in this case. From what I understand the fact that the hardware exists on the watch is the problem. Back when something similar happened with FaceTime it was easier for Apple to deal with because they were able to fundamentally change how FaceTime works since it was entirely software.