alt Hacker NewsBad headline. This tweet attempts to explain why Rosetta 2 will no longer work. Which is because the OS no longer supports the Intel platform. That does not explain why the OS does not support the Intel platform.
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lxgr • today at 12:50 PM
But it does?
> Rosetta 2 requires almost the entire OS to have Intel support.
The implication here being that (almost) the entire OS having Intel support is not trivial.
Ygg2 • today at 12:50 PM
Because Apple is the King of Deprecations. And they get away with it.
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Because it costs them money to maintain it, and they'll make more money when people upgrade to M series?
In all seriousness, it's a little lame. Consider that the Intel Mac Pro (2019 model) was still selling in 2023! That's not that long ago, and those were their highest end machines in terms of memory capacity. The "new" Mac Pro has since been discontinued...