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What important Intel-only macOS software is going to exist in five years?

It's basically only games and weird tiny niches, and Apple is pretty happy to abandon both those categories. The saving grace is that there's very few interesting Mac-exclusive games in the Intel era.

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Starting with Ventura, Linux VMs can use Rosetta 2 to run x64 executables. I expect x64 Docker containers to remain relevant for quite a few years to come. Running those at reasonable speeds on Apple Silicon would be huge for developers.

Yeah, Apple killed all "legacy" 32-bit support, so one would think there's not much software which is both x86-64 and not being actively developed.

Rosetta 2 can run 32-bit software, there just isn't a 32-bit macOS anymore so the only client is WINE.

2006 Apple was very different from 2011 Apple, renewing that license in 2011 was probably considered cost prohibitive for the negligible benefit.

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