Rosetta 2 is supposed to be available for older games only but I’m not sure how they’re planning to enforce that. Maybe some kind of whitelist? Either way it was a travesty that Valve didn’t bother before. Running what is essentially a full web browser through Rosetta couldn’t ever work well because of all of the recompilation already happening there.
Considering they just turned iPadOS into macOS–I doubt they’re trying to turn macOS into iOS. They’re just being their typical, stuck-up, stingy asshole selves. Use Metal, or die.
I was like “hey, Apple Silicon looks like a great turnaround!” and indeed it was–I love my M1 Max MacBook. Now, they’re going backwards again. Frustratingly, they’re also going forward with the launch of their OSes this year. It’s a sidestep.
Again.
I, and others, are only playing this game so many times, so I have no idea what the strategy is.
Apple not keeping legacy cruft is why they were able to move to ARM so quickly. For all the grumbling about cutting 32-bit support couple of years ago, this is what allowed them to do that (among other things). And, as demonstrated, developers like Valve take action only when they are forced to. Windows and Linux on ARM are stuck in the mud with no end in sight while Apple is almost done with the transition.
I think it is because they are killing Rosetta support. Will this affect gaming?
Rosetta 2 is supposed to be available for older games only but I’m not sure how they’re planning to enforce that. Maybe some kind of whitelist? Either way it was a travesty that Valve didn’t bother before. Running what is essentially a full web browser through Rosetta couldn’t ever work well because of all of the recompilation already happening there.
I mean sure, but apple killing Rosetta support is also idiotic. I think that they just want to turn OSX into iOS which is just awful.
Apple doesn’t care about maintaining compatibility. Look at their previous changes such as PowerPC to x86 and forcing 64-bit only applications.
Considering they just turned iPadOS into macOS–I doubt they’re trying to turn macOS into iOS. They’re just being their typical, stuck-up, stingy asshole selves. Use Metal, or die.
I was like “hey, Apple Silicon looks like a great turnaround!” and indeed it was–I love my M1 Max MacBook. Now, they’re going backwards again. Frustratingly, they’re also going forward with the launch of their OSes this year. It’s a sidestep.
Again.
I, and others, are only playing this game so many times, so I have no idea what the strategy is.
Apple not keeping legacy cruft is why they were able to move to ARM so quickly. For all the grumbling about cutting 32-bit support couple of years ago, this is what allowed them to do that (among other things). And, as demonstrated, developers like Valve take action only when they are forced to. Windows and Linux on ARM are stuck in the mud with no end in sight while Apple is almost done with the transition.