Yep. They unceremoniously dropped the first Rosetta without warning, destroying a lot of investment into applications. Even though it could have been left in place as an option for those who were willing to use the few MB of disk space it took.
Yep. They unceremoniously dropped the first Rosetta without warning, destroying a lot of investment into applications. Even though it could have been left in place as an option for those who were willing to use the few MB of disk space it took.
They dropped the original Rosetta so fast for a few reasons:
1. To push certain major software publishers, notably Adobe and Avid (and to a lesser extent, Microsoft), to release Mac Intel-Native versions of key Applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, ProTools and MS Office, to name a few). This was immentized by the second reason, below.
2. Performance, or rather lack thereof. The biggest barrier to decent performance for Rosetta was also the one that could never be satisfactorily fixed: Endianess. PowerPC (G5,
I have no idea what GP and parent are talking about... Rosetta still works fine on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I think this is PEBKAC, that irresistible urge many users have to update their production machines without thinking. If your rig works, and you are not affected by the bugs they fix, and you do not expect to use the new features (this is the tradeoff), then please let me give you some advice: DON'T UPGRADE. If your stuff works without being on the bleeding edge, so what? Stay there.
Rosetta 2 will last for less time than Rosetta, because porting to the new platform is effortless. Don't want to buy new software? DON'T UPGRADE. Stuff doesn't break, it keeps on working. Satisfied current Snow Leopard customer here (Safari doesn't work. But Apple didn't break the web, the web broke itself. I use the last working version of Chrome which, guess what, IT STILL WORKS).
I apologize for my irritability. I just can not stand all this entitled bellyaching. Get a better job, buy the new stuff, or just shut up. Thank you.
You run into the situation where some new application only runs on a newer OS version, but that OS version _deliberately_ breaks support for older software which was working just fine.
You run into the situation where some new application only runs on a newer OS version, but that OS version _deliberately_ breaks support for older software which was working just fine.
Thanks for not beating me up for being annoyed, thanks for ignoring that. You're a pro.
The problem I see with that is "some new application." That's the problem that you don't think it is, i that it isn't a problem. Now, I wouldn't say there will never be any brand new innovation in software that rises to "killerapp." But they're going to be fewer and fewer and farther and father between. Everything has been done that can be done by now. I hate this idiom, but there is more than one way to skin a cat. UNI
"for years to come" (Score:5, Interesting)
translation: you have 2 years
Re: (Score:5, Informative)
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Yep. They unceremoniously dropped the first Rosetta without warning, destroying a lot of investment into applications. Even though it could have been left in place as an option for those who were willing to use the few MB of disk space it took.
They dropped the original Rosetta so fast for a few reasons:
1. To push certain major software publishers, notably Adobe and Avid (and to a lesser extent, Microsoft), to release Mac Intel-Native versions of key Applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, ProTools and MS Office, to name a few). This was immentized by the second reason, below.
2. Performance, or rather lack thereof. The biggest barrier to decent performance for Rosetta was also the one that could never be satisfactorily fixed: Endianess. PowerPC (G5,
Re:"for years to come" (Score:2)
I have no idea what GP and parent are talking about... Rosetta still works fine on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I think this is PEBKAC, that irresistible urge many users have to update their production machines without thinking. If your rig works, and you are not affected by the bugs they fix, and you do not expect to use the new features (this is the tradeoff), then please let me give you some advice: DON'T UPGRADE. If your stuff works without being on the bleeding edge, so what? Stay there.
Rosetta 2 will last for less time than Rosetta, because porting to the new platform is effortless. Don't want to buy new software? DON'T UPGRADE. Stuff doesn't break, it keeps on working. Satisfied current Snow Leopard customer here (Safari doesn't work. But Apple didn't break the web, the web broke itself. I use the last working version of Chrome which, guess what, IT STILL WORKS).
I apologize for my irritability. I just can not stand all this entitled bellyaching. Get a better job, buy the new stuff, or just shut up. Thank you.
Re:"for years to come" (Score:4, Interesting)
Re: (Score:2)
You run into the situation where some new application only runs on a newer OS version, but that OS version _deliberately_ breaks support for older software which was working just fine.
Thanks for not beating me up for being annoyed, thanks for ignoring that. You're a pro.
The problem I see with that is "some new application." That's the problem that you don't think it is, i that it isn't a problem. Now, I wouldn't say there will never be any brand new innovation in software that rises to "killerapp." But they're going to be fewer and fewer and farther and father between. Everything has been done that can be done by now. I hate this idiom, but there is more than one way to skin a cat. UNI