| ▲ | guappa 2 days ago | |||||||||||||
They dropped rosetta 1, what makes you think they will keep supporting this one? | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | GeekyBear a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Rosetta 1 was licenced third party technology back when the company wasn't exactly rolling in money. https:/www.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit If you have to pay the licensing fee again every time you want to release a new version of the OS, you've got a fiscal incentive to sunset Rosetta early. Rosetta 2 was developed in-house. Apple owns it, so there is no fiscal reason to sunset it early. | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | jchw 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Rosetta 1 wasn't really useful for much because PowerPC was a dead platform by the time Apple switched off of it. Rosetta 2 is used for much more than just compatibility with old macOS apps. | ||||||||||||||