[Sidnicious]

From the point of view of an IT professional, this is a big deal.

Apple is sliding forward the lower bound on software that can be expected to run on a newly-purchased computer by several years. There's no indication to the average user which of their applications will stop working on their next computer, and there are oodles of copies of PowerPC applications out there in the wild.

[adsr]

You got to ask yourself how many PPC apps there really are that have not got an update and been recompiled for Intel by now. The indication would be if they have manually downloaded Rosetta on Snow Leopard.

[JunkDNA]

I know of one that will be a major pain: the Apani VPN client. It's the only way to VPN into a Nortel VPN from OS X and has never been ported to Intel. It is the only reason I had to put Rosetta on Snow Leopard. I get the feeling it will likely never get an upgrade since it feels a bit like abandonware already. Here's hoping my employer switches to Cisco.

[adrianN]

The Cisco VPN client for OS X is crap though. Whenever my Mac crashes with a kernel panic, Cisco is to blame.

You should better whish for your employer to switch to something that can be readily used with onboard methods.

[nnutter]

Exactly. And out of all the apps I use there was only one that triggered the Rosetta prompt; an open-source disk usage utility called Disk Inventory X. Users may not remember installing Rosetta but the fact is they and the developers have had plenty of time to find alternative solutions.

[ben1040]

And out of all the apps I use there was only one that triggered the Rosetta prompt; an open-source disk usage utility called Disk Inventory X.

For what it's worth, the website (www.derlien.com) for this project still calls the universal binary version "beta," but it's been that way since 2006 and has worked just fine.

[cosmicray]

1) AppleWorks 6 - which while mostly replaced by iWork, is still in use by quite a few people. iWork has yet to implement a database module.

2) compiled AppleScript scripts - a certain number of those were compiled, and generated PPC binaries, and not UB. beware.

[radicaldreamer]

I thought Bento was supposed to be the replacement entry-level database?

[yuhong]

Yea, AppleWorks 6 was one of the first Carbon apps, and BTW Apple did not eliminate any Carbon APIs in the PPC->Intel transitions, meaning that all your early Carbon apps still using QuickDraw, WorldScript, the old pre-Carbon Event Manager, the old pre-OS 9 File Manager limited to 31 character filenames etc. can still be recompiled for 32-bit Intel.

[coob]

1) Bento.

2) Applescripts do not compile to machine code.