| But actually, I personally believe that the actual reason Apple killed 32bit support was because they didn't want to build it into Rosetta. (And they didn't want Intel computers to be able to run anything their new Apple Silicon computers could not.) I doubt it; that’s not how Apple rolls. They’re not like Microsoft which keeps legacy technologies around for backwards compatibility for several years after a technology is no longer mainstream. Reasonable people can disagree but Apple is about the present and the future, not the past. Sure, they could have kept Carbon around or pick your favorite framework from the past but that’s generally not their thing. Occasionally something from their past reappears, like the QuickDraw GX font format from the 90s that became the basis for today’s variable fonts on the web. Apple has always been fine with some software not making the leap to the next operating system or processor architecture. We’ve seen this going back to 68K to PowerPC then to Intel and now ARM. Being able to run x86 operating systems (Windows) natively on Intel Macs was a huge selling point not that long ago and now it’s an afterthought that current buyers (mostly) don’t care about. Microsoft would bring Windows for ARM to Apple Silicon and so far, they haven’t. And while this is all going on, Macs have never been more popular. |