Apple will drop support for aging Intel macs and the Rosetta Intel code translator. RM will soon need to either provide Universal code or drop its (few?) mac customers.
Well, we (they) are talking about late 2026 for MacOS 27, so maybe there is time for whatever the development tool that RM uses to start spitting out ARM code. But …….
Looks like something we Mac users need to keep an eye on - or start pressing for more forcibly.
In my opinion, waiting to the very end of Apples Rosetta support is not an option. If RM decides to drop the Mac in the end, I would rather switch to something with a future on my computer now and not invest my energy into a data model that needs to be migrated. A roadmap - something many products publish - would build confidence and put Mac users at ease.
Other developers made Universal or Apple Silicon code for their products available quickly. I think RM has too small a mac customer base to bother having lost so many mac and windows people during the RM 8 mess.
You don’t need to worry. RM development is working on this. We will need two download options because not all users will immediately be on silicon chips.
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From what I can see Delphi already supports Apple SIlicon. As you say you’ll have to have an Intel and Apple Silicon downloads as many other products provide, but it should be a matter of a separate build targeting a different framework and not a huge rewrite.
Good. Most developers offer their mac apps with Universal code (old Intel + new apple silicon). I was impressed when even my Doxie Go scanner offered apple silicon code a year ago.
Thank you for letting us know the RM is already working on a native Mac silicon version. I started using RM with version 10, and have been hoping for a native version even before hearing Apple is discontinuing Rosetta support.
Glad to hear this. I just bought RM10, not realizing it wasn’t yet native silicon. I was going to rebuild my tree from scratch… a monumental undertaking I wouldn’t consider if I’d be wasting my time.
The databases won’t be different between versions with the same number.
I was referring more to RM no longer being able to run on Mac once Apple drops support for Intel software next year. RM does intend to develop a version by then that will run on silicone Mac’s no longer running an OS that requires Rosetta?
Rootsmagic doesn’t tip their hand as to what future development may bring. However, since they worked so hard to get an Intel version up and running, much to the chagrin of many Windows users, I can’t imagine they aren’t going to turn out a silicon version before Apple drops Rosetta.
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I have no trouble believing in no apple silicon RM version before Intel sunset with only a few mac users.. All mac programs are now universal or silicon code. Why would Windows users care about RM doing an odd unmac-like mac version?
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You don’t need to worry. RM development is working on this. We will need two download options because not all users will immediately be on silicon chips.
Because Windows users have suffered ever since RM7.5 from the actions taken in the migration from a purely Windows-oriented development to the Windows-MacOS hybrid?
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If RM skewed the Windows version they sure did not get a conventional mac version out of it. Perhaps both user groups suffered from not hiring an outside professional development team.
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It’s definitely about as “un-Maclike” as possible. It’s extremely jarring coming from MacFamilyTree 11, but there are a few features in RM I’d like, mainly DNA tracking and health reports, and slightly better sourcing, although MFT 11 has about caught up.
I won’t lie, I’m concerned about the upcoming retirement of Rosetta, and if RM will be around for Macs.
I bought macfamilytree a few versions back but could not tolerate their idea of a pedigree/tree view and endless scrolling columns of media, etc. I did find it to be a beautiful smooth running mac app–just not useable by me. FTM is less powerful than RM but a stable simple mac platform/interface with a real tree view and an easy to use media display for each person. Also, the automatic MFT upload to Familysearch allows idiot users to overwrite good data.
a few versions back it was intolerable. Only versions 10 & 11 are good. Close to great.
FTM’s business practices leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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FTM is overpriced and a pain to have to go through 20 pages of buy this and that to get a paid for download. I will look at MFT again. I had bought #9 in 2021.