Can I ask a dumb Rosetta question? When I got my M1 MBP, I used Migration Assistant and transferred everything over from my iMac. I never had a Rosetta installation prompt when I opened Intel apps. I thought there was supposed to be a one time installation when you first open an Intel app. That never happened. Just curious about the process.
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Rosetta May Be Removed From M1 Macs in Some Regions on macOS 11.3
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Either it did prompt but you missed it. Or Migration Assistant is smart enough to know itself moving from an Intel backup, so it ran without telling you beforehand. I myself started fresh on my M1 Air so I can't verify, just wild guessing. It did prompt on mine upon first launching an x86 app.
It wouldn't affect me much, since only 2 apps I use: Dropbox and OneDrive are Intel only - which is strange.
My 2019 16inch MacBook Pro Intel i9 is running fine for 16 months without a glitch and the razer core x egpu with a Nvidia 3080 card is the icing on the cake with windows 10.
Wouldn't this be easily circumvented by simply changing your region to US?
What new info is available?
In no regions. It’s a beta and it’s code that is not even enabled.
Probably. Or maybe it requires a VPN. It's hard for Apple to reliably tell where someone is.
I think it’s legal. But most likely not export restrictions (because I think these would apply to Macs and Rosetta equally). I think it might be the name or technology IP for which certain companies might have patents in specific countries (ie China).
Well, this will make for some interesting water cooler chatter....doubt anything will come of it because Apple knows/hedging their future on Apple Silicon....to cancel this amazing transition software would be akin to shooting themselves in the foot....
Apple is smarter than to remove the rug this quickly...
Apple is smarter than to remove the rug this quickly...
Welcome to MR where the facts don’t a matter and the points are made up!
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When your VPN can turn that brick in front of you into a computer
Checked in the process viewer and I have only two applications which are using rosetta I really hope that I will get soon native arm apps for both (one drive and AdGuard, one drive I need for study/work so that cannot be replaced and for AdGuard is there any good native arm add blockers for Safari available?).
There are many specific technologies that are export restricted. It’s perfectly possible for macs to not be restricted but for Rosetta to be restricted (on a country-by-country basis). Apple’s own website, in the legal section, lists different restrictions for all sorts of products and technologies.
There is no proof this will actually be activated anywhere.
Even if it is, there is no proof which countries it will be implemented in.
I think it is almost inconceivable that this could affect the USA, Canada, or the UK, and that probably covers at least 90% of the people on this board.
Even if it is, there is no proof which countries it will be implemented in.
I think it is almost inconceivable that this could affect the USA, Canada, or the UK, and that probably covers at least 90% of the people on this board.
Double lol. I was fully expecting Apple to do this quietly in a couple of years just to screw everyone over. Never expected it to be in a couple of months. Good luck, M1 people.
It’s not happening in any country where anyone reading what you just wrote lives.
Yeah but they used Rosetta back in the PPC-x86 transition, Doesn't stop someone from challenging it but the lawyers will show selective enforcement which will get it tossed. I am thinking it's related to the x64 code translation. While Apple/Intel agreements from the PowerPC transition allowed for sharing of tech (patents) the x64 ISA is sourced from AMD.
Heck, now that i think about it, wouldn’t the statically-translated code have to be, at a minimum, cryptographically signed to prevent modification by rogue processes/attackers? If so, the issue could be as simple as an export restriction related to encryption.
plus you can’t copyright a name - that’s trademark. And apple wouldn’t pull the code because of trademark. Nor would they have to - the code doesn’t contain the trademark.
I am using the same setup and decided to wait for the rumored M1x with that load set (mostly Open Source) it will probably be transitioned over to Apple M1 by then.