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Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Tomorrow at midnight PT, Apple will begin issuing an alert box when you open a 32-bit app in MacOS 10.13.4. It's a one-time (per app) alert, designed to help MacOS make the full transition to 64-bit. At some unspecified time in the future, the operating system will end its support for 32-bit technology meaning those apps that haven't been updated just won't work. That time, mind you, is not tomorrow, but the company's hoping that this messaging will help light a fire under users and developers to upgrade before that day comes. Says the company on its help page, "To ensure that the apps you purchase are as advanced as the Mac you run them on, all future Mac software will eventually be required to be 64-bit." As the company notes, the transition's been a long time coming. The company started making it 10 or so years ago with the Power Mac G5 desktop, so it hasn't exactly been an overnight ask for developers. Of course, if you've got older, non-supported software in your arsenal, the eventual end-of-lifing could put a severe damper on your workflow. For those users, there will no doubt be some shades of the transition from OS 9 to OS X in all of this.
If you provide the money for licensing replacement tools and training the staff to use them, we can switch over today!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Games are an example of software that doesn't usually get updated, but you still want them to keep working. Frankly I wish programmers like you (who don't have respect for backwards compatibility) would crawl into a ditch and die, but I don't get everything I want in this world.
Frankly I wish people like you (who think developers are beholden to lifetime support software in any future OS) would crawl into a ditch and die, but I don't get everything I want in this world.