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Allocation of a finite amount of engineering resources.

• joshuat 4mo ago
  And a legitimate business interest to further incentivize the adoption of Apple Silicon devices. Same with Rosetta deprecation after macOS 27.
  • JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
    > a legitimate business interest to further incentivize the adoption of Apple Silicon devices Apple has never been about supporting legacy platforms with new features. And with over a quarter of revenue and two fifths of Apple's gross profits coming from services, one could argue the incentives run either way.
  • ForOldHack 4mo ago
    Rosetta 2. Rosetta was for Intel to emulate 68k, now if you could get Rosetta 2 to run under Rosetta, then you could run 68k, on an ARM, and if you could get the apple ][ emulator...
    • weikju 4mo ago
      Rosetta 1 was for emulating PPC not 68k
      • ForOldHack 4mo ago
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  • crote 4mo ago
    Sure, but to what extent? Enterprise ARM servers are still a niche product, and so are the ARM developer machines running Linux or Windows. Until this significantly changes, Apple will have to provide good x86 interop - or lose the developer market entirely. Forcing people towards Apple silicon is of course an attractive approach when targeting the large portion of the market using their MacBooks as Facebook browsing machines, but (especially with the new MacBook Neo) what's going to happen when a large portion of the market for high-end MBPs disappears because it turned from the default no-brainer into a liability?
    • macintux 4mo ago
      > Until this significantly changes, Apple will have to provide good x86 interop - or lose the developer market entirely. I'm very, very skeptical of this analysis. Certainly "entirely" is hyperbole.
    • solarkraft 4mo ago
      That’s a joke right? I’ve been developing software deployed on x86 servers on ARM Macs ever since they were released.