Just heard this Monday Apple unveiled macOS 27, or macOS Golden Gate, at WWDC26 on June 8th. The Developer Beta 1 build is internally known as build 26A5353q I heard Apple is revamping Siri AI, using more Apple Intelligence and apparently a new dedicated app. Apple wants Siri to provide richer answers, be more personal, and wants users to be able to customize Siri. Apple tries too hard to push Siri to users sometimes I also heard Apple is tying in on digital-wellbeing features and minor safety in macOS 27. Apple is also making some changes to Liquid Glass. I feel like the Liquid Glass in macOS Tahoe Developer Beta 1 (or build 25A5279m) was glossy enough! Anyone else have thoughts on this?
hopefully tinkerers will make workaround patch to mimic apple hardware on intel vm's otherwise tahoe for few more years till updates end; betas are just that so unless have spare hdd or use vm on apple hardware don't make this beta as production use even beta 2 or 3 tahoe was problems even after release and first couple updates as they are like microsoft always a work in progress but as vm easy to test, or if dual or multiboot to test live have nothing to lose, if done properly os's are becoming standard look across all platforms whether laptop, desktop, tablet, phone to try and standardize look and feel; android trying with chromeOS/aluminium upcoming for their android desktop OS
macOS releases had a 3 year support window since Mac OS X Lion (2011), and with the exceptions of Catalina and Big Sur still receiving critical security patches. Not so sure if tinkerers can find a workaround, that would involve some major work with the CPU itself. Apple emulation requires the proprietary Apple Silicon chips and the Apple Virtualization Framework. By 2028 though I'd say Tahoe support ends, so for now, we don't have options for emulating ARM hardware So far Golden Gate doesn't change much in terms of major changes except for the Siri AI features that are going to be released across the ecosystem like iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, etc, and their child safety improvements Watched the keynote yesterday, and Apple is integrating Apple Intelligence into a larger set of software Apple is also using this to debut their Spatial Reframing. Not sure how it works, sounds interesting though I could have never imagined that Apple would partner with Google to base their Siri AI off of Gemini models
I don't even have a Mac I'm gonna get a 16-inch MacBook Pro from 2019, and I did want to try Golden Gate, but the reviewers with Apple Silicon can tell me all about it, I guess. Siri sounds nice for a change. Crazy how Macs that costed four digits can't even have four years of support (it's true; modern macOS update support since Mountain Lion usually extends only three years, exceptions are Big Sur and Catalina) I guess OCLP has to come to a stop with the release of Golden Gate, by the time macOS Tahoe support ends Intel will be completely faded out by Apple, as the CPU emulation needed to emulate ARM on x86 and x64 would be so intensive on the hardware. At this point it is easier to just get an Intel Mac and Boot Camp Windows on it because Apple still has support for that