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No they didn't. There is simply too much complex, professional software that will take time to be ported to ARM versus the relative straightforward needs of en

No they didn't. There is simply too much complex, professional software that will take time to be ported to ARM versus the relative straightforward needs of entry-level users e.g. Go, Photoshop, Docker. And they need a large install base to push developers to invest the necessary resources.

bartread 6y ago
But, in theory at any rate, Rosetta2 will allow you to run all that software on Apple silicon.
- threeseed 6y ago
  We already know that Rosetta2 doesn't support everything.
  - jcheng 6y ago
    Do you have any links? Other than virtualization, I hadn't heard about any limitations. Edit: Looks like kernel extensions aren't supported either.
    - totalZero 6y ago
      Certain advanced instruction sets are also unsupported by Rosetta 2.
Tagbert 6y ago
Adobe has a native M1 Photoshop in beta now and plans to port Premiere after the first of the year. You may be overestimating the effort to “port” to M1. For most apps, it is just a new compile target and a bunch of regression testing.
- threeseed 6y ago
  Adobe is a top tier developer. They get access to pre-release hardware, on-site Apple engineers and rapid fixes whenever something doesn't work. Very different from all of the other third party developers.
- totalZero 6y ago
  It's a beta, not a release version. And it wouldn't be possible to run an M1 beta if there were no M1 products on the market.