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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 1 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ronyfadel ◴[22 May 20 16:05 UTC] No.23273550[source]▶
I hope Apple currently has a team focused on macOS perf.

I worked on the team in charge of improving iOS (13) perf at Apple and IIRC there was no dedicated macOS “task force” like the one on iOS.

Luckily some iOS changes permeated into macOS thanks to some shared codebases.

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pier25 ◴[22 May 20 16:12 UTC] No.23273626[source]▶
> IIRC there was no dedicated macOS “task force” like the one on iOS

It's not surprising. Macs are less than 10% of Apple's revenue.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/04/30/apple-2q-2020-earnings/

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robotresearcher ◴[22 May 20 16:27 UTC] No.23273824[source]▶
But at Apple scale: 9% of $58 billion = $5.2 billion Mac revenue last quarter.
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pier25 ◴[22 May 20 17:33 UTC] No.23274711[source]▶
OTOH when Apple was a much smaller company the mac was much more important to them and it showed.

Maybe it's not related to revenue per se, but clearly since iOS became their main thing the Mac has suffered tremendously.

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