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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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qppo ◴[22 May 20 16:24 UTC] No.23273776[source]▶
It's surprising that they don't improve the developer experience for their own developers using their own tools, including hardware.
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saagarjha ◴[22 May 20 16:43 UTC] No.23274026[source]▶
Apple uses the same tools you do. They just might not be using it like you are; you can find a lot of features that clearly have no reason to exist outside of Apple nonetheless shipping with their software.
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qppo ◴[22 May 20 16:55 UTC] No.23274191{3}[source]▶
That's kind of my point - it's surprising to me that they're shipping slow hardware and software, when they're used to develop that same hardware and software. Developer time is expensive.
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1. saagarjha ◴[22 May 20 19:26 UTC] No.23275926{4}[source]▶
I would actually be quite happy if the engineers were forced to work on four-year-old MacBook Pros and develop against Display Zoomed iPhone 7 and the second generation Apple Watch, using the toolchain and software they push to their developers.