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They barely just released Containerization Framework[0] and the new container[1] tool, and they are already scheduling a kneecapping of this two years down the line.

Realistically, people are still going to be deploying on x64 platforms for a long time, and given that Apple's whole shtick was to serve "professionals", it's really a shame that they're dropping the ball on developers like this. Their new containerization stuff was the best workflow improvement for me in quite a while.

[0] https://github.com/apple/containerization

[1] https://github.com/apple/container

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pjmlp|4 months ago

Apple has always been like this, there are other options when backwards compatibility is relevant feature.

WillAdams|4 months ago

Yeah, it kind of kills me that I am writing this on a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 running Windows 11 so that I can run Macromedia Freehand/MX (I was a beta-tester for that version) so that I can still access Altsys Virtuoso 2 files from my NeXT Cube (Virtuoso 2 ~= Macromedia Freehand 4) for a typeface design project I'm still working on (a digital revival of a hot metal typeface created by my favourite type designer/illustrator who passed in 1991, but whose widow was gracious enough to give me permission to revive).

I was _so_ hopeful when I asked the devs to revive the Nx-UI code so that FH/MX could have been a native "Cocoa" app....

jack_tripper|4 months ago

That's why like 80%+(?) of corporate world runs Windows client side for their laptops/workstations. They don't want to have to rewrite their shit whenever the OS vendor pushes an update.

Granted, that's less of an issue now with most new SW being written in JS to run in any browser but old institutions like banks, insurances, industrial, automation, retail chains, etc still run some ancient Java/C#/C++ programs they don't want to, or can't update for reasons but it keeps the lights on.

Which is why I find it adorable when people in this bubble think all those industries will suddenly switch to Macs.

mxey|4 months ago

The OP says nothing about Rosetta for Linux.

luizfelberti|4 months ago

It seems to talk about Rosetta 2 as a whole, which is what the containerization framework depends on to support running amd64 binaries inside Linux VMs (even though the kernel still needs to be arm)

Is there a separate part of Rosetta that is implemented for the VM stuff? I was under the impression Rosetta was some kind of XPC service that would translate executable pages for Hypervisor Framework as they were faulted in, did I just misunderstand how the thing works under the hood? Are there two Rosettas?

embedding-shape|4 months ago

> and given that Apple's whole shtick was to serve "professionals",

When was the last time this was true? I think I gave up on the platform around the new keyboards, who clearly weren't made for typing, and the non-stop "Upgrade" and "Upgrade" notifications that you couldn't disable, just push forward into the future. Everything they've done since them seems to have been to impress the Average Joe, not for serving professionals.

conception|4 months ago

The current macbook pro was basically a checklist of items professionals wanted away from consumer new shiny thing.

alwillis|4 months ago

> Everything they've done since them seems to have been to impress the Average Joe, not for serving professionals.

"CIOs say Apple is now mission critical for the enterprise" [1]

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/25/cios-say-apple-is-now-mission...

ehutch79|4 months ago

There are a lot of projects with arm containers on docker hub. It’s not hard to build multi platform containers.