iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[platinumaqua]

THIS is the reason macOS (iOS?) 27 will be like Snow Leopard… Removing fat binaries that contain Intel-specific assets and removing drivers that support legacy (non-Apple Silicon) hardware should in theory make macOS run smoother on more recent Macs! Supporting legacy is the main reason development is held back, as incompatible hardware designs make it difficult to sustain long term.

Edit: The article mentions iOS 27 (the iPhone OS) and Snow Leopard (a Mac OS), although the two don’t have much in common. Perhaps there’s legacy stuff being removed from iOS too!

Why? The Intel code doesn’t even get executed on ARM Macs. The only gain is hard drive space.

 

[one1]

10.6 will forever be the best OS they have ever made. The thing is, it wasn't perfect... but you could MAKE it perfect. You had full freedom to tune that OS, hack that OS, modify that OS, and share all of those with peers to make it as versatile and useable as possible. You spent more time starting at the base and ADDING features to 10.6 that YOU wanted. Now they bloat everything you don't want then take away your ability to remove it, modify it, or customize it because they can sell you an app for that (which never does what you want).

I used to have a very specific way I set up 10.6 where I had a folder full of apps, hacks, and settings that took me 2 hours to set up on a new machine, but man when that thing was done.... it did EVERYTHING and did it fast.

If they wanna make 27 like 10.6, give us the power to DISABLE.

 

[TMRJIJ]

I remember snow leopard well and it was GREAT. performance boost was substantial. breathed life into old hardware kinda good.

Your memory is incorrect. It dropped PPC Macs swiftly and arrived with OpenGL issues on MacBooks withx950/X3100 integrated GPUs.

I feel like most posters here are very young.

Snow Leopard was awesome. To be honest macOS has been going slowly downhill ever since.

I was 13 years old when this happened

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[TMRJIJ]

10.6 will forever be the best OS they have ever made. The thing is, it wasn't perfect... but you could MAKE it perfect. You had full freedom to tune that OS, hack that OS, modify that OS, and share all of those with peers to make it as versatile and useable as possible. You spent more time starting at the base and ADDING features to 10.6 that YOU wanted. Now they bloat everything you don't want then take away your ability to remove it, modify it, or customize it because they can sell you an app for that (which never does what you want).

I used to have a very specific way I set up 10.6 where I had a folder full of apps, hacks, and settings that took me 2 hours to set up on a new machine, but man when that thing was done.... it did EVERYTHING and did it fast.

If they wanna make 27 like 10.6, give us the power to DISABLE.

This sounds more like you’re describing Windows than macOS.
The charm of the Mac was that you would turn it on and get started immediately. You didn’t need waste time messing around with settings and hacks.

 

[one1]

10.6 worked fine out of the box, people who used 10.6 are well aware of what was said above and it's capabilities.

 

[jjrtiger]

Snow Leopard on a 2012 non-retina MBP with an SSD Drive and 16 GB of RAM was a dream.

the 2012 non Retina may have been one of the only Macs that could be downgraded from the version it shipped with.

The laptop came with Lion on a HDD which was painfully bloated and slow. Turns out there was a hack: wipe it and install Snow Leopard. I think the trackpad didn’t work until you updated to 10.8.

Once I added the SDD and downgraded to Snow Leopard it was the best MacBook ever. Didn’t care about the retina. SL flew on that proc/ram/SDD combo.

 

[TJFDenver]

So, intel Mac’s get the iShaft?

 

[afreemanmd]

I just hope we get some new emojis🙄

 

[eRondeau]

This is certainly encouraging. I felt the same way when Snow Leopard was announced — as a nuts-and-bolts improvement to Leopard. (I still have a couple of Macs running Snow Leopard and they are still awesome.) Also important to note: Snow Leopard was the first version of OS X that dropped PowerPC support; it was Intel -only. So that’s another mirror to MacOS 27 which is expected to drop Intel support. History repeats itself, again.

 

[btbeme]

Need to fix the bug that is called "liquid glass."

 

[xpxp2002]

It eventually makes one wonder why we use these products.
(talking to myself as much as anyone else)

I think it's because the landscape overall, outside Apple, isn't really much better.

Tech platforms have become "which shade of awful do you want to deal with?"

I agree. I stay for the more privacy-focused design, compared to Android. Or anything Google for that matter.

 

[doronbt]

I just hope they will rewrite Screen Time. ⏳ Ideally, replicate Google Family Link. 💪

 

[Killbill2]

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple's biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability.

At WWDC 2008, Apple showed a presentation that said Mac OS X Snow Leopard had "0 new features," as it opted to focus on performance and stability improvements. Technically, the update did include some smaller new features, but Apple was overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood changes on the Mac.

"We've built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown," said Apple's former software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. "Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before."

iOS 27 will still get some new features too, including a more personalized version of Siri. The update should be announced in June and released in September.

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Article Link: iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Overwhelmingly focused on re-promising features left undelivered for the last two iOS versions—trust remains MIA.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I don't see this happening. Apple has built their yearly release on new features and I don't see them abandoning their playbook for better stability.

 

[grammatica]

Honestly, what’s the point if the following year it’s going to revert back? The stability doesn’t persist, and decades-long bugs that don’t seem to get resolved, such as the ringer volume matching the media volume, resulting in the lock sound and keyboard clicks being loud, remain.

 

[StoneJack]

So, intel Mac’s get the iShaft?

use Ventura for intel Macs. I am using it now, amazing solid OS

 

[Adamal]

Why? The Intel code doesn’t even get executed on ARM Macs. The only gain is hard drive space.

There is a lot going on under the covers (at the OS) level to even make fat binaries work in the first place. It would be better to remove all that cruft, and code where compromises were made by Apple to support both platforms. Also, Rosetta 2 won’t be available at all in Tahoe. Less bloat on the disk for sure, but also less bloat required to handle both platforms at the OS kernel. Apple can truly optimize the experience for Apple Silicon now…

 

[MikeSmoke]

It's needed if they are going to introduce Neo with only 8gigs Ram. It will take optimization to keep it and M1 MacBook Air alive and well.

 

[antnythr]

Looking forward to Snow Tahoe

 

[ayres]

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an option to make it look as good as snow leopard did…

Man, I loved snow leopard. Didn’t it free up like 12 gigs? It looked great and performed so well. Wasn’t it the first 64bit os?

 

[waltermitty]

Can they just release Snow Leopard for it?

 

[loby]

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an option to make it look as good as snow leopard did…

Would be kinda cool if they had a cool intro like Snow Leopard had..just sayin’

 

[Eithanius]

Snow Tahoe.

And if that fails then it becomes $hitho(l)e...?

 

[macfacts]

it is now mid-March and I still don't have any plans to install Tahoe on my Mac(s). I can't risk it on the devices where I get 95% of my 'work' done.

apple can only fix issues users report and you can't find issues if you don't install and use it. Mac OS allows you to "downgrade", so why don't you test Tahoe?

 

[Yebubbleman]

That's nice. Now, let's do the same for iPadOS and macOS!