Apple orchestrated a much smoother transition from OS 9 to OS X and RISC to x84 than from 32bit to 64bit.
During that entire decade, Apple issued steadily-increasing warnings to users that eventually, the 32-bit support would cease.
Seems like a smooth transition to me.
You're not supposed to. The fault lies with the developers of these apps that knew the change was coming and didn't do anything about it.
> How am I supposed to replace unmaintained/old software when there's no new 64-bit, notarized version of it?
You are not, and therein lies the problem that apparently some people are incapable of recognizing. It was a terrible decision, and some guy tried to justify it with "technical debt", but somehow other OSes are perfectly capable of handling it while Apple cannot. Why is that?
In any case, I think it was a silly decision to "force" the customer to pick between old vs new software, but I am sure they can afford it. People will probably forgive them for it, and then completely forget about it. New users in the future probably will not even have anything to forget (or forgive), unless they want to run "really old" software, in which case people will just boo on them, and say "times change, technologies change, you gotta adapt, man" and the like which seems to be the case today with respective to both old software and hardware.
This is not true of my 32 bit apps.
For some reason people were still releasing 32 bit apps as late as this year. Maybe it was because Apple didn't warn users about this until Mojave was released, which was barely a year ago.
I wish I had my HDMI and SD card ports back though.
Btw, Apple's reportedly putting the Esc key back on the new MB Pros. And they still have an audio jack. And they still have USB.
Did they?
I only saw warnings in Mojave.
I'm and Apple registered dev. I remember in 2016-2017 when it was announced for iOS and that was just 2-3 years ago. For macOS I think the first time I heard about it was about a year ago.
I would expect such a big deprecation to be announced at least a couple of years in advance if not more, but Apple generally does a terrible job at letting you know what will happen 2+ years down the road.
There was a whole machine architecture change, and most people didn't even notice.
It’s extremely disappointing. Apple just ensured my next machine will run Windows.
Same here. Counter Strike Source. Shame, Valve!