Apple's been new macos release date on it since last fall, when marketing weighed in on what it thought the next update needed, engineers pitched new ideas, and Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi sifted through the big pile on his desk. Here's what's made the news so far. Stlll, New macos release date dropped this on and it's getting attention, so it's worth the reminder: May 23, 2018: System-wide Dark Mode rumored — guessed. In this case, it's hard to tell if Gui is sharing a rumor, and educated guess, or just wishing like the rest of us. I just assumed Marzipan was the name for one of the candidates for this project, but that Apple was going ahead with a different candidate. That's also when the new Home screen and interface design are currently scheduled to appear, which John doesn't think is a coincidence. And is probably not a coincidence. Mark Gurman, on Twitter, claims this is part of separate projects being run by the Swift team. There are many moving pieces with a major multi-year, multi-step project like this. Still, given how many major achitectural changes Apple has rolled out and in some cases, rolled back over the last few years, it sounds like more refinements, not less, are in our future. Mark Gurman writing for : These features were delayed after Apple Inc. Instead of keeping engineers on a relentless annual schedule and cramming features into a single update, Apple will start focusing on the next two years of updates for its iPhone and iPad operating system, according to people familiar with the change. The company will continue to update its software annually, but internally engineers will have more discretion to push back features that aren't as polished to the following year. And that makes developing and maintaining the Mac version more difficult than, say, the iPad version. Apple could be about to make that easier, though. Mark Gurman, writing for : Starting as early as next year, software developers will be able to design a single application that works with a touchscreen or mouse and trackpad depending on whether it's running on the iPhone and iPad operating system or on Mac hardware, according to people familiar with the matter. Theoretically, the plan could be announced as early as the summer at the company's annual developers conference if the late 2018 release plan remains on track. Apple's plans are still fluid, the people said, so the implementation could change or the project could still be canceled. I spoke to developers who've worked on previous, third party, shared framework attempts in the past. Apple has made many, huge changes under the hood over the last couple of years, including everything from a new file system to a new windowing server, and it has to keep paying down that technical debt. Though, increasingly, Apple seems to be trying to coordinate the releases due to the amount of shared features between them. It's the crack marketing team, as he often points out, that gets to choose the names. More likely is one of the following, part of a list of Apple trademarks unearthed in 2014:.
