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by GeekyBear 277 days ago
Rosetta 1 was licenced third party technology back when the company wasn't exactly rolling in money.

https:/www.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit

If you have to pay the licensing fee again every time you want to release a new version of the OS, you've got a fiscal incentive to sunset Rosetta early.

Rosetta 2 was developed in-house.

Apple owns it, so there is no fiscal reason to sunset it early.

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> Apple owns it, so there is no fiscal reason to sunset it early.

Except not having to pay to maintain it.

> so there is no fiscal reason to sunset it early.

Silicon (or verification thereof) isn't free.