Look at the bright side - with ARM Macs I'm sure I'll get more of my missing Steam games back... Who am I kidding? It'll just get worse now that I lose my entire Steam Library, instead of a mere 85-90% of it.
Ah, well things elsewhere may be a bit different. Tons of SW apps will now stop supporting current Intel versions and force users to get paid updates to the ARM versions. Adobe and Microsoft with their SaaS probably regret missing this gravy train, unlike the last time.
Youâ(TM)re not losing any applications _now_. You _may_ lose applications if you buy a new ARM Mac and throw your old Intel Mac away. But then application developers should have no problems recompiling for ARM.
"for years to come" (Score:5, Interesting)
translation: you have 2 years
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translation: you have 2 years
Look at the bright side - with ARM Macs I'm sure I'll get more of my missing Steam games back... Who am I kidding? It'll just get worse now that I lose my entire Steam Library, instead of a mere 85-90% of it.
Ah, well things elsewhere may be a bit different. Tons of SW apps will now stop supporting current Intel versions and force users to get paid updates to the ARM versions. Adobe and Microsoft with their SaaS probably regret missing this gravy train, unlike the last time.
The PPC to Intel transition was
Re: "for years to come" (Score:2)
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I'm perfectly aware of this.
However, running a "lame duck" operating system is not something I relish doing, as support tends to whither away and patches tend to stop coming.