A Snow Leopard move, at least for iOS, is what's on deck:

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-will-reportedly-...

ProfessorLayton 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

A major reason Snow Leopard was well received was because of how performant it felt along with the bug fixes. What isn't mentioned anywhere near as much is that it dropped a lot of hardware (PPC). The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped.

iOS 26 is slated to drop a bunch of iPhone models. macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.

A Snow Leopard release isn't great news for a lot of people.

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selcuka 3 days ago | parent [-]

> The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped.

> macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.

Those two cases are not really comparable though, are they? The last Intel CPU Mac was the 2019 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2023.

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ProfessorLayton 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Aren't they? The last Intel macs were being sold less than 3y ago, and by the time macOS 27 releases they'll be less than 3.5y old.

The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of hardware being left behind, and many of the devices that could have benefited the most from optimizations were cut off.

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asimovDev 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

they also used to sell 2018 intel mac minis alongside it for a while as well, didn't they?

	▲	selcuka a day ago \| parent [-]
		Those were discontinued in 2023, too. I still think it's unrealistic to expect 8+ years of OS updates for a computer even if you purchased it 5 years after its launch date.

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fchicken 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Great... yet more attention on iOS

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robotresearcher 2 days ago | parent [-]

Roughly 1.75 billion to 250 million installed OSes, according to public estimates. 7 to 1 ratio.

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fchicken 2 days ago | parent [-]

The numbers don't tell the full story.

The development of Mac OS X was the development of iOS, and it was one-way.

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robotresearcher 2 days ago | parent [-]

How does that matter to where the attention is paid today?

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fchicken a day ago | parent [-]

Everything (or 90%) on the iphone was taken from the mac and put into the iPhone. The software dvelopment for the PC environment, then stripped down and streamlined for the phone is why the iPhone was the revolution that it was.

Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. "iPhone makes this much profit = iphone gets this much development".

That thinking has led us into this stagnated crap, because it's a terrible way to do software. Worse, what's happening now is apple is taking its iThing software and trying to migrate it to the mac. The Mac is now getting destroyed by the iPhone development.

That is the reason why.

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robotresearcher a day ago | parent [-]

> Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated.

Wow.

	▲	fchicken 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Don't "Wow." out of context. The smart move is further development of the Mac to explore ways to bring new features to the iPhone or future apple devices. To simply go "this = profit = all development goes there" personifies a lack of wisdom.