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Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm
Do I need to use simpler words? Do you even understand what is about to happen with the ARM transition?
None of what you are going on about is relevant to this thread talking about what might happened in an architecture transition. If you want to state conclusions from past behavior you need to at least be looking at what happened with past architecture transitions. You are looking at updates that do not involve any architecture transitions and trying to draw conclusions about architecture transitions. It's not relevant.
No credible analyst/apple ecosystem pundit expect new OS support on Intel for anything like the number of years you are talking about. And it's a hot question, those folks cannot get Apple execs to give *any* commitment for how many years that support will be provided. But why are so many experts asking those questions when they could just ask you? Obviously everybody else is stupid.
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There is really no need for snark or name calling here. After all, this is just a minor disagreement on unreleased technology that nobody has firm answers on. Rosetta 2 won’t face the same limitations technologically as its predecessor. We’ve already seen benchmarks from the devkit running on native x86 code in the non optimized OS with a chip that won’t even be in a desktop that showed decent results. It’s fair to assume those results were colored with the Rosetta emulation as benchmark software is still x86 and not optimized for arm. It’s disingenuous at this point and time to assume that Apple will handicap its users for intel machines, not just for architectural switching reasons, but because they are still releasing intel machines in their product pipeline. It is not to apples advantage, or their users, to end support in 3-4 years as some of the pundits have suggested.