alt Hacker NewsIt just seems to me that that Macbook Neo is basically them telling us that come next year they will unify iOS and MacOS and they are testing the waters at the moment.
All this version alignment, the blurring of "here is a laptop with A processor and iOS" points to that direction.
The errs of Tahoe are basically a result of the rush on that direction
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i hope you're wrong. they certainly have seemed to test the waters on many other fronts. the $99/yr notarization fee is now basically required as running unnotarized apps is made hard and scary enough to turn off probably 97% of average users
they also briefly took away the ability to disable gatekeeper per terminal command (now back)
next they wanna launch a touchscreen macbook, presumably this fall
I think they have the pathway to merge it right now. But it will cannibalize their sales so they dont want to do that.
If anything, Neo signals they will not merge macOS and iOS.
Why would they if they just released a brand new MacBook?
The SoC is just a way to differentiate from the Air and to keep costs low.