Apple plans to break almost every unsupported app a second time in 2 decades

Apple plans to remove most of Rosetta 2 early next year.

As a result, every App (except a few unmaintained games) which hasn't been recompiled for Apple Silicon will break.

Rosetta 2 is an Apple Intel to Apple Silicon (Arm) wrapper used during their Apple silicon transition.

Rosetta 1 was removed in 2011, breaking all PPC (non-universal) apps on Intel Apple Machines.

Whilst some in the community love to boast about "ABI compatibility", they sure don't seem to have any problem with every app breaking on new Apple hardware, or being forced to buy a new computer to use newer versions which may not include the old architecture compiled in...

It's likely only a matter of time until those games break too

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