About the survival of our Data ( when Apps die )

Posted by Skywatcher
Jun 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM

Andy Brice wrote:
> >I understand macOS 26 is not going to support Intel chips. So you won’t
>be able to update that expensive Intel Mac you bought in 2020. It looks
>like Intel apps will continue to run under Rosetta translation, for now:
>https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-to-phase-out-rosetta-2-starting-with-macos-28-as-intel-era-ends.2458631/
> >

Starting macOS 28 , not OS26. So, in the year 2028. It’s written in the title of the link you posted.
Also, support for Intel is not going to be dropped entirely in os28 ( year 2028 ) , as written in the link you posted :
“ Beyond this timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks.“

But yes, support for Intel processors will likely to be entirely dropped in 4 or 5 years from now. For anyone old enough to remember, the same thing happened when Apple transitioned from Motorola/IBM PowerPc processors to Intel, decades ago. In a similar way Rosetta 1 provided emulation for software written for PowerPc processors, and was dropped a few years later to only support Intel processors ( it lasted less than the actual Rosetta 2 , which will be providing full Intel support for at least 6 years, then probably a much limited support for a few more years beyond that ) .