You go first, I’ll wait here… https://t.co/heTsoNO1Qd
— ᴺᴼᵀ Jony Ive (@JonyIveParody) November 12, 2020
Hey Apple users:
— Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) November 12, 2020
If you're now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch.
It's trustd connecting to https://t.co/FzIGwbGRan
Denying that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure.
(Disconnect internet also fixes.) pic.twitter.com/w9YciFltrb
Apple servers are melting a little bit right now. Can cause some hanging issues on your Mac: https://t.co/BSxzV8AwjJ
— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) November 12, 2020
? Looks like, when apps are launched, Gatekeeper is unable to check their validity over the internet, due to overwhelmed Apple servers. So, uh, let’s all hang in there! You got this, Apple devops!
— Panic (@panic) November 12, 2020
One more tidbit on Big Sur’s design. I know it’s not to everyone’s tastes, but I think it’s fantastic and exactly what the Mac needs for the road ahead.
— John Voorhees (@johnvoorhees) November 12, 2020
macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review https://t.co/QcC1ggty5c pic.twitter.com/P6VL9Eif92
It fully downloaded and then this happened on iMac Pro. It happened at the same time on another Mac. Server restart on Apples side maybe? pic.twitter.com/j1bDIdT2LV
— Aaron Zollo (@zollotech) November 12, 2020
...what if the macOS Software Update process, depends on Apple Maps to get routing directions to end users computers!? ?? pic.twitter.com/uXnjbAQDvI
— patrick wardle (@patrickwardle) November 12, 2020
Just upgraded my main machine to Catalina last week, thinking about scheduling my Big Sur upgrade for approximately 12-15 months from now. You guys are clearly more risk tolerant than I am ?
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) November 12, 2020
Consensus in many tech circles was that Apple would never ever transition the Mac to its own silicon.
— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) November 12, 2020
Something to keep in mind when consensus solidifies around the next Mac-related topic.
Apple marcom: Let's release major operating system updates at short notice.
— Paul Hudson (@twostraws) November 12, 2020
Apple's servers: Wait, wha—??? https://t.co/kO8GGtK5Ra
Don't call the ARM transition boring pic.twitter.com/9Wpk7nE6py
— Andrew Griffin (@_andrew_griffin) November 12, 2020
I don't understand people who want Apple to put touch screens on their laptops. I have a laptop with a touch screen and I've never used it on purpose, but touch it accidentally while typing all the time
— Jerry Neumann ?? (@ganeumann) November 12, 2020
Hey if your Mac is suddenly sluggish it’s not just you. https://t.co/sAswt15NS8
— John August (@johnaugust) November 12, 2020
On Big Sur, trustd is in Apple's "ContentFilterExclusionList"
— patrick wardle (@patrickwardle) November 12, 2020
....meaning firewalls can't block it! ?
Welcome to the future? ? https://t.co/8PkmWkcZDS pic.twitter.com/ypYxLRGULn
There's a lot of jumping to conclusions with those M1 benchmarks atm and it's kinda sad. Wait a week or 2 for proper real world based tests to come out and don't rely on worthless ones like geekbench
— Fudge (@choco_bit) November 12, 2020
Whether it should support finger touch or not, the iMac should definitely have a design that supports Apple Pencil, like Microsoft’s Surface Studio
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) November 11, 2020
Holy shit this big sur update must be the worst upgrade experience I have observed. The mac I tried to update to is basically failing to install the update after an awfully slow download and my other mac is now having issues with trustd spinning when I launch apps. The hell apple
— Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) November 12, 2020
As macOS Big Sur launched, users’ Macs slowed—even those that weren’t upgrading https://t.co/do9a6MBouW pic.twitter.com/CYKkslSoYp
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) November 12, 2020
Good to know that if Apple has a server hiccup my Mac becomes a paperweight. Time to dust off the ol Linux ThinkPad.
— Josh Centers (@jcenters) November 12, 2020
The problem with the Surface Studio: how many pro apps that you run on a $5k PC are rewritten for touch? Photoshop? Autocad? You can add a bit, but do you rewrite the whole UI? And for one low-volume PC? So: if Apple does add touch to the Mac, how many apps get redesigned for it?
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) November 12, 2020
This explains a lot of what I was seeing this afternoon… https://t.co/B9kIdFdGT4
— Steven M. Bellovin (@SteveBellovin) November 13, 2020
Been a long time since I’ve seen excitement around Mac benchmarks. The “waiting for PowerBook g5” days were long ago. Feels a bit like old times.
— Arnold Kim (@arnoldkim) November 12, 2020
Nobody remembers to disable/prevent/opt-out automatic uploads to Geekbench when testing new hardware.
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) November 12, 2020
Nobody. ? https://t.co/yChPmDI0TG
This is a similar reason to why the date trick (+ others) worked. Usually OCSP falls to “allow” if it can’t connect. https://t.co/aZsKoTUVvz
— Emu4iOS (@Emu4iOS) November 12, 2020
You gotta hand it to Apple's third-party dev community to have so many apps Apple-Silicon-native right out of the gate, including beta versions of Microsoft Office. There was always this idea of the 'app gap' for Microsoft & its modern efforts, but maybe it's just a developer gap
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) November 13, 2020
Also: no touchscreens. pic.twitter.com/wNMxHE2rzf
— Andrew Griffin (@_andrew_griffin) November 12, 2020
Apple: Let’s make all apps on our desktop OS phone home before they launch, what could possibly go wrong?
— Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) November 12, 2020
I absolutely love the mindshare Apple’s M1 & Arm are getting. The knowledgeable can scream all they want at the marketing, but if they were *wise*, they’d realize the effects prove Apple’s marketing did a textbook move. And, thankfully, their narrative has obsoleted “MOAR CORES.”
— Danilo "18pF flip-flop" Cominotti (@dcominottim) November 12, 2020
On two separate Zoom calls we thought the Matrix was glitching because everyone's laptops were crashing simultaneously. No, just Apple: https://t.co/6KCnMXMHrA
— Damon Kiesow (@dkiesow) November 12, 2020
One of the more fascinating things with the Mac is how there is always that tension in the air between long-time users and Apple. It never goes away. You don't see a similar tension with any other Apple product category and corresponding user group.
— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) November 12, 2020
why in the mac app store is there a human hand touching macos interface elements pic.twitter.com/51xyCDYCHB
— Louie Mantia, Jr. (@Mantia) November 13, 2020
Speaking of shipping at scale, Apple has now shipped the Apple Silicon versions of its iWork suite, Garageband, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Motion, and Xcode. Compare and contrast with how other platforms have handled their ARM transitions… ?? pic.twitter.com/EKfaC3SJVL
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) November 13, 2020
The ergonomics argument went out the window when they launched the Smart Keyboard for the iPad Pro 5 years ago. The macOS isn’t optimized for touch argument somewhat went out the window with Big Sur. I think we’re almost out of other reasons.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) November 13, 2020
Includes this moment of Craig Federighi admitting Apple didn't actually think the computers were going to be this fast: pic.twitter.com/8JdoSa9H14
— Andrew Griffin (@_andrew_griffin) November 12, 2020
Something to read while you wait for that download… https://t.co/cAL6wuwMOx
— John Voorhees (@johnvoorhees) November 12, 2020
Big Sur is a really big deal; a turning point in the Mac's history that doesn't come along very often. I spent the last several months testing it and here’s my review on @Macstoriesnet:
— John Voorhees (@johnvoorhees) November 12, 2020
Big Sur: The MacStories Review.
I hope you enjoy it.https://t.co/QcC1ggty5c pic.twitter.com/F73uyziHGN
The huge privacy elephant in the room here is the implication that Apple gets a timestamped call home telling them exactly what program you are running whenever you start one.
— Chris Bagnall (@minotauruk) November 13, 2020
That's not cricket.
There needs to be a way of turning this shite off. https://t.co/PrsRqxvHa7
Apple just revealed perhaps the most important change to its Macs, ever. I spoke to some of its most important people about how and why:https://t.co/lnfzYTsCkR
— Andrew Griffin (@_andrew_griffin) November 12, 2020
macOS Big Sur is out, and it's a major turning point for the Mac.
— Federico Viticci (@viticci) November 12, 2020
Here's our in-depth review, featuring visual comparisons, third-party apps, and lots more.
macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review https://t.co/8VUEXyDhU2 pic.twitter.com/hVpKjwgfU9
Before you run out and get the latest shiny just remember.
— Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) November 12, 2020
1. 16GB of RAM, you can live with it, but do you want to?
2. There will be software that won’t work right away.
3. You’ll have to use Big Sur version .0.
4. Apple almost has to release a M1X sometime early next year.
Once upon a time the default advice was don’t upgrade on day 1 because your apps may not work.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) November 12, 2020
For the past few years that wasn’t really a probem.
This year … I would wait. I’ve had at least a couple of my bipbobs not work or work oddly on Big Sur.
It’s okay to wait! https://t.co/WHVkLkVaee
One of my biggest frustrations with Big Sur is that Safari STILL does not allow you to set a websites as a single site browser / web app / separate window. Chrome and Edge let you do this right in the browser, with Safari you have to resort to third party tools.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) November 12, 2020
Ben’s wrongheaded stance on touchscreen Macs is the gift that keeps on giving, if you worry that he and I agree on too many topics. https://t.co/grlPGbuIsY
— John Gruber (@gruber) November 11, 2020
macOS 11 Big Sur now available!! ??
— iFenix (@iFenixx) November 12, 2020
2015 and later MacBook
2013 and later MacBook Air
2013 and later MacBook Pro
2014 and later Mac mini
2014 and later iMac
2017 and later iMac Pro
2013 and later Mac Prohttps://t.co/VwQ7N7Jl35
Have to believe at this point not putting touch on the Mac is influenced by not wanting to hurt iPad sales. Why would Apple make a hybrid when they can sell you both? https://t.co/9lMx9aahXp
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) November 13, 2020
Unimaginable. macOS unable to open any non-Apple application. The joy of Proprietary software. MacOS sends hashes of every executable to Apple server when trustd and syspolicyd cannot do so. The entire macOS stops working. https://t.co/sCellcCAr5
— The Best Linux Blog In the Unixverse ? (@nixcraft) November 13, 2020
First gen part puts entire industry to shame instantly. I would imagine Apple don’t plan to stay still. It’ll be like playing Mario Kart when the other player is a whole lap ahead and you’re wondering if they’re still there
— Jon Masters ?☠️ (@jonmasters) November 12, 2020
Did everyone's mac shit the bed today or just mine?
— Michael Arrington (@arrington) November 12, 2020
The only reason anybody is complaining about the 16GB RAM limit in Apple's new low-end M1 machines is that all the high-end-Mac people want them so bad. When the higher-end machines ship, they'll be *even faster* & more powerful — you just gotta wait ?
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) November 12, 2020
Don’t assume the MacBook Air will be silent just because it’s fanless. Big Sur will play audio of spinning fans through the speakers during heavy workloads.
— Craig Federighi Parody (@federighiOS) November 12, 2020
seems like macOS' gatekeeper can't verify stuff, so it just... hangs. :( https://t.co/tQT2TpmpDP
— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) November 12, 2020
It should (will be) added but the utility for desktop apps will be nil. The real benefit to users and developers is for iPad and iPhone apps, many of which will never get tuned for mouse/keyboard which could be a lot of work for small number of users.
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) November 12, 2020
In case you weren’t able to join Zoom calls from your Mac (like me), this is the reason. https://t.co/aW72m9KhBw
— Vijay Shekhar Sharma (@vijayshekhar) November 13, 2020
It seems quite possible Apple will add touch to the Mac. This is a religious debate as much as an analysis. But if the first Apple Silicon iMac has touch, how does that work? Maybe it has a hinge... like this? pic.twitter.com/GhlO36miMc
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) November 12, 2020
Welp. Love to peg my cpu trying to type because apps are hammering apple servers asking for authorization to open. https://t.co/GFkm0g0enE
— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) November 12, 2020
This is what a global single point of failure looks like. Please avoid them when designing systems. https://t.co/fsQgT3yBrx
— Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver) November 13, 2020
If you’re on a Mac running a relatively new version of macOS and it’s having all sorts of weird issues right now: you’re not alone.https://t.co/jauxkmTZFL
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) November 12, 2020
.@Apple has confirmed macOS Big Sur has launched with a new press release.https://t.co/IrfkbMAb5G#macOS #macOSBigSur pic.twitter.com/feF9LO9aSK
— Apple Terminal (@AppleTerminal) November 12, 2020
"From the curvature of window corners to the palette of colors and materials, the thoughtful design will benefit everyone from first-time Mac owners to the most demanding pros."
— Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) November 12, 2020
Um, how exactly do rounded windows benefit me???https://t.co/TbZMbMuYCD
맥OS X이 2001년 3월 발표된 이후 20여년이 지나 새롭게 메이저 업그레이드가 되어 발표된 맥OS 11, Big Sur의 업데이트가 공식 배포를 시작. iOS를 닮게 바뀌어진 새로운 디자인,ARM 기반의 M1칩 탑재 맥 지원,완전히 새로와진 지도앱,강력해진 보안과 빨라진 성능도 포함 https://t.co/HRB5gZich6 pic.twitter.com/hKi1RZnirS
— 박수민 / Soomin Park (@minist) November 12, 2020
macOS Big Sur has been released by Apple https://t.co/0BdFZNxFf9 #unix
— The Best Linux Blog In the Unixverse ? (@nixcraft) November 12, 2020
macOS Big Sur is here - Apple https://t.co/y6Wcgx4Ll2
— iPhone Mania (@iPhoneMania_jp) November 12, 2020
macOS 11 Big Sur is now rolling out and should appear on devices any moment.
— Event Timer (@AppleEventTimer) November 12, 2020
It includes a fresh design, new features for Messages and so much more. https://t.co/PsX5oDzxSL#AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/iPH4QsF9za
macOS 11 Big Sur is here and Day One is ready for new widgets on Mac! https://t.co/FBAEIUPtqM pic.twitter.com/haxTzPIDjd
— Day One Journal (@dayoneapp) November 12, 2020
Nope. Not upgrading yet. Not for a long, long time. https://t.co/PUW7oWbyyP
— Greg Hurrell (@wincent) November 12, 2020
No spoilers, but here’s a taste of what to expect in my Big Sur review.
— John Voorhees (@johnvoorhees) November 12, 2020
macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Review https://t.co/QcC1ggty5c pic.twitter.com/Vk6gqxMs67
macOS Big Sur is here, offering a fresh, fun UI modernization, great app updates, and more. @johnvoorhees has put together an excellent, in-depth review of the Mac’s biggest update in years. Enjoy! https://t.co/u4axy3LZ4n pic.twitter.com/RywcmpW2H8
— Ryan Christoffel (@iryantldr) November 12, 2020
Big Surの正式版がリリースされたみたいです!
— Taichi (@TaichiGadget) November 12, 2020
かなりのソフトが動かなくなっているのでアップデートは慎重に!!
macOS 11 Big Sur now available, here’s what’s new for your Mac https://t.co/sCPU4QLydC
"Apple’s hardware, software and marketing chiefs explain how the company’s new processors came to exist" https://t.co/RTTGYNlS3M
— Kontra (@counternotions) November 13, 2020
크레이그 페데리기가 최근 인터뷰에서 여전히 "터치 스크린 맥은 없을 것"이라고 못 박았다.https://t.co/XC5gJEwTxo pic.twitter.com/71pS56noQK
— 쿠도군 (@KudoKun_) November 13, 2020
Apple executives sit down to talk M1, new Macs, and macOS Big Sir with @reneritchie, @TheTechChap, and more in new interviews https://t.co/kYMR7m7Gkc
— iMore (@iMore) November 13, 2020
Ready for M1-powered Macs? So are we! All @OmniGroup apps are now available for M1 and macOS Big Sur, and we love how smooth and responsive they are!https://t.co/lrYM1AFxcY
— The Omni Group (@OmniGroup) November 12, 2020
What a seamless transition. The future of the Mac has never looked brighter! pic.twitter.com/fStjbFgb1C
Ready for M1-powered Macs? So are we! All @OmniGroup apps are now available for M1 and macOS Big Sur, and we love how smooth and responsive they are!https://t.co/puSPaZlL7f
— Ken Case (@kcase) November 12, 2020
What a seamless transition. The future of the Mac has never looked brighter! pic.twitter.com/S1LAuapHW2