From what I can remember, and especially recently, this is the latest time a new mac OS has not been released yet. I wonder if Big Sur is much more challenging for Apple, or if Apple is deliberately timing Big Sur's release with their Silicon Event expected to happen on November 9th, or possibly both. Either way, all the more reason to exercise caution in moving/upgrading to OS 11, especially the first few versions. As I mentioned previously, I will test Big Sur (probably after V11.1 is released) on a separate external SSD.
You might be interested in the MacOS 11.0.1 release Notes. If you are not interested in the technical details I can sum them up by saying they won't effect you until you buy a computer with Apple Silicon or will be developing apps intended to run on Apple Silicon. The consensus is MacOS 11.0 wlll be released next week concurrent with the announcement of a MacBook and iMac with Apple Silicon.
There is nothing to indicate anything related to clones or cloning.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
