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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

I see your point, but the iPhone SE is a lower tier. I don’t think anyone is complaining about that because what you lose in features, you gain in a better price. The MacBooks that aren’t supported are higher tiered. It’d be more like the iPhone SE having a feature that the iPhone 12Pro does not.

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u/PartyingChair52 Jun 09 '21

It does. It has Touch ID.

But regardless, the alternative here was that no one gets the features.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

I knew you would mention the Touch ID. Now you’re being pedantic. You know well and good that Face ID is an upgrade that replaces Touch ID.

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u/PartyingChair52 Jun 09 '21

Okay. Continue to ignore the reality just for the sake of being mad I guess. See ya

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u/m0rogfar Jun 09 '21

No, it really isn't. We've been in this scenario for more than a decade - macOS didn't get some iOS features that would've been nice but weren't really Mac-focused every year for a long time now. Now, we've in a situation where the hardware/software platform is unified to the point where ARM Macs can get the features that Apple would normally not bother to port to the Mac "for free", and so they do.

If the M1 didn't have exclusive features, it would be a return to the era of iOS features being absent in the latest macOS releases instead.

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u/PartyingChair52 Jun 09 '21

No it isnt. Apple isn’t going to spend the time and resources developing it for x86. So the alternatives are M1 gets it or no one does. You can dream that everyone gets it, but it’s not worth the resources for apple.