Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel

Summary

As you probably know after all this time, Tedium is obsessed with the closing frame, the end of the story. And today, we learned that Apple is finally ending its 20-year run of Intel-based Macs.That’s the bad news. The good news is that they gave the public one more year of new versions, along with the promise of potential security fixes, avoiding an uncomfortable rug-pull like the one that many PowerPC users experienced with Snow Leopard in 2009. That OS came out a mere three years after the discontinuation of the last PowerPC Mac, and users had to figure out the cutoff was happening by reading Apple rumor sites.While some Mac models did get short shrift (owners of the 2020 Intel MacBook Air have some angry skeets to write), for the most part, the company did not try to force this transition to happen faster than it needed to. The commercial for the first Intel Mac, dating to 2006. If you’ve ever seen the video for The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” and think it looks very familiar, there’s a reason for that.It was as if the company wanted to bury the blow as much as possible, so it didn’t even mention it during the main WWDC keynote, which is the one that the average person cares about. It was instead buried nearly 55 minutes into the 57-minute Platforms State of the Union, where Apple Senior Director of Developer Relations Matthew Firlik dropped the news like this:Metal 4 is a great example of the tight integration of our software with Apple silicon, creating a whole new class of experiences. In fact, since we began the transition to Apple silicon over five years ago, we’ve been able to add incredible features like Apple Intelligence, Game Mode, Presenter Overlay, and more.We completed the transition to Apple silicon across our entire product lineup two years ago. So your apps can now depend on and build upon these features too. Apple silicon enables us all to achieve things that were previously unimaginable. And it’s time to put all of our focus and innov...