5 posts tagged ‘macOS 11.0 Big Sur’
25 Years of the Dock and Aqua
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James Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes around the icons, and an actual “Dock” folder in your user’s […]
The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
Paul Kafasis: In 2020, the disaster foreshadowed literally one sentence ago struck. Beta versions of MacOS 11 broke ACE, our then-current audio capture technology, and the damage looked permanent. When we spoke briefly to Apple during WWDC 2020, our appeals for assistance were flatly rejected.[…]With this in mind, we engaged in further discussions with the […]
M4 Macs Can’t Virtualize Older macOS
Howard Oakley: Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it’s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It’s also true when that VM has […]
Xcode 16.1
Apple (downloads): Xcode 16.1 includes SDKs for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, tvOS 18.1, watchOS 11.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1, and visionOS 2.1. The Xcode 16.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 7 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 16.1 requires a Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.5 or later. I’m […]
Easier Mac Audio App Installs
Paul Kafasis: As a result of changes Apple made back in MacOS 11, our apps have been stuck with a setup process that’s much more complicated than we’d like. Currently, an annoying restart is required to get going on Intel-based Macs. Setup is even more burdensome on Apple’s newest M Chip-based Macs, with multiple restarts […]