Upgrading to macOS 27 no longer removes an existing Rosetta installation, according to Apple's enterprise release notes for macOS 27.2. Previously, upgrading to macOS 27 removed existing installations of Rosetta, the translation tool that lets Intel-based apps run on Apple silicon Macs.
macOS 27 remains the final release with full Rosetta support. Apple plans to phase out general-purpose support starting with macOS 28.
Which then causes devs to use it as a crutch and be lazy and not update their binaries, which is why windows is struggling to get ARM development moving along.
Apple needs to keep Rosetta in perpetuity
It’s bad news, Apple should be keeping Rosetta
That’s good news (for now).
The last line is correct. It is exactly how Apple keeps stuff optimized and clean. Even liquid glass became mandatory with ios 27, if your UI looks out of place youll be rejected
What could be the reason for Apple wanting to remove it? It's quite necessary for some people and I don't see any negative consequences from keeping it. Or is it just Apple doing what Apple always does, i.e. getting rid of older stuff to force users and developers to update their stuff?
Probably house cleaning, and they didn't exactly remove it...they uninstalled it. I'm glad that they did do this. Developers have had nearly seven years to get their apps updated. Many people likely don't have any Intel apps anymore (I no longer do), yet Rosetta was still installed because there's no way we can uninstall it ourselves, at least not officially. If the user still uses Intel apps, it would have reinstalled again.
What could be the reason for Apple wanting to remove it? It's quite necessary for some people and I don't see any negative consequences from keeping it. Or is it just Apple doing what Apple always does, i.e. getting rid of older stuff to force users and developers to update their stuff?
