[leptons]

That's great if all you do with a computer is browse facebook (or hacker news). Pros of all kinds have specific platform/software requirements and Apple chucked a lot of that out the window (again) with a move to a new platform - and it isn't optional, intel Macs will be extinct soon and so will software support for them. They don't care about pros, they care about money and the money is in selling to people who only browse facebook.

[lelandfe]

I respect the surliness of “(again)” despite the first example happening in 2006

[leptons]

> despite the first example happening in 2006

Apple Macintosh started on Motorola processors. Then they moved to PowerPC processors. Then they moved to Intel processors. And now they've moved to ARM processors. It's happened 4 times in the same product line.

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/through-the-ages-apple-...

[wtallis]

2006 wasn't the first such transition Apple did, just the previous one. Their transitions from 68k to PPC and from classic MacOS to OS X were similar to the PPC to x86 and x86 to ARM transitions from an application compatibility standpoint.

[jmkni]

Do you have examles of 'pro' software which no longer works on Apple Silicon?