On Amazon devices moving from Android to Vega OS. Google is in a battle to the death with Apple. Android/iOS now running on beefy hardware. Vega is about running on the smaller things. When you build on Linux, like Vega has, every component maker you go to has a Linux driver you can use. Fast dev.
Apple
Apple’s new container support in macOS 26 is nowhere near as feature-rich as Docker. It doesn’t support memory ballooning or loopback networking to the host. But it’s much lighter on Apple Silicon resources and launches containers like greased lightning.
Apple are doing okay with AI. AI will be like databases. Big models in the cloud and tiny ones in everything else. Whenever I see people give Apple advice, I remember that if they had followed mine from 20 years ago, the company would be 1/20000th its current size but make the best desktops ever.
Apple’s WWDC 2025 is next week. And when it comes to major releases, to paraphrase Sean Connery:
Captain Ramius: Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - macOS hardware obsolescence.