Apple bringing some macOS Monterey features ‘exclusively’ to M1 Macs as it works to slowly transition away from Intel

The web site lists the options as these unique to Macs operating on M1 chips.

MacOS Monterey: Tech big Apple earlier this week introduced the upcoming main software program replace – the macOS Monterey – for its Mac, and the replace is bringing a bunch of recent options to Apple’s flagship computer systems. Nevertheless, now, a few of the most fascinating options may not be reaching the Intel Macs. As per the macOS Monterey replace web site, some options have been listed particularly for Macs which were constructed utilizing Cupertino’s in-house M1 chip.

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The web site lists the next options as these unique to Macs operating on M1 chips:

1. macOS Monterey is coming with a particular Portrait Mode on Facetime that might blur the background of a person whereas utilizing Apple’s video calling function.
2. A brand new Stay Textual content function is being included within the new replace, to make the textual content interactive in all images. With this, features like copy and paste, lookup, and translate could be obtainable to customers in Pictures, Screenshot, Fast Look, and Safari.
3. The brand new interactive 3D globe on Apple Maps can be being introduced in just for Macs on M1.
4. One other Maps function, which might enable customers to see detailed maps of cities like San Francisco, London, New York and Los Angeles, can be not going to be added to the Intel Macs.
5. Apple is ramping up its neural text-to-speech voices and is including help for Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian languages.
6. Other than this, on-device dictation in offline mode, and limitless on-device dictation are additionally being introduced in.

Notably, the primary line-up of M1-based Macs had been first launched solely in November final 12 months and are pretty new, which means that a lot of the Mac customers are nonetheless utilizing the Intel-based fashions. These options may very well be seen as Cupertino’s reward to those customers for selecting to change to the brand new expertise so shortly. They may additionally, nonetheless, be seen as an incentive to deliver extra prospects on-board the brand new M1 chip-based Macs. Whereas most customers may not need these options and select to not change, this might snowball into Cupertino bringing in subsequent updates with extra M1 model-exclusive options that might make customers forego the Intel fashions for the brand new ones containing Apple’s in-house processors.

Apple has performed good with its transition from the third-party processors to M1, pitting its personal outdated Intel fashions with its new M1-based ones. Final 12 months, when saying the brand new processors, it had mentioned that it might not pull help for updates on Intel fashions, which it technically nonetheless hasn’t pulled, however it didn’t point out something about not bringing in unique options that might ultimately make customers want the M1 fashions as an alternative of the Intel ones. Cupertino is understood for having loyal prospects who want to have all the brand new options that the corporate brings in, desirous to get one of the best worth in return for worth, and it appears that evidently Apple is taking part in on this very trait of its prospects to part out the outdated fashions, and make sure that its loyal buyer base strikes with it to the brand new processors as properly.