TWiT News 357

Apple's Vice President in Software Engineering Andreas Wendker and other Apple engineers give us a deep dive on the transition to Apple Silicon, as well as changes to macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watvhOS, Xcode, and Swift.

Highlights:

• Apple Silicon is all about performance and interoperability.
• Universal 2 will make Intel apps work on Apple Silicon with Xcode.
• Unity runs on Apple Silicon.
• Rosetta 2 virtualization uses Parallels.
• iOS apps will run natively on macOS with Apple Silicon.
• macOS Big Sur has a new design that borrows heavily from iOS and iPadOS.
• Big Sur is macOS 11.
• iPad Pro Lidar sensor has new uses in iPadOS 14.
• Apple Pencil ads Scribble and Scratch in iPadOS 14.
• You'll be able to code widgets with Swift in iOS 14.
• You can also use Swift to code watchOS complications.
• Xcode will help developers seamlessly transition their apps from Intel to Apple Silicon.

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