Wanted to instal an APP, but it says that M1 or later is required to be able to instal this very App. Asked the developer and he replied that it's Apple's demand. So the question is: what the **** should do users who have, say, MacBook Air 2020 i5, like I do? Seems they need to buy new devices with M1 or M2 to be able to instal some new App. Really strange policy from Apple.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.2
The developer is either mistaken or lying.
Apple does not demand any developers to create apps for a specific platform or CPU.
If what you are trying to install is an iPhone or iPad App, then it requires an M1 chip to correctly decode the iPad / iPhone specific application code to run on a Mac. The intel CPUs can't do this.
For intel CPU's you ca find other apps that do work on them. I'm sure there are other apps that can do what this one does and work in an Intel CPU.
The developer is either mistaken or lying.
Apple does not demand any developers to create apps for a specific platform or CPU.
If what you are trying to install is an iPhone or iPad App, then it requires an M1 chip to correctly decode the iPad / iPhone specific application code to run on a Mac. The intel CPUs can't do this.
For intel CPU's you ca find other apps that do work on them. I'm sure there are other apps that can do what this one does and work in an Intel CPU.
MySSI is an iPhone / iPad App. As such to run on a Mac it requires an M1 chip to decode the iOS based code.
Ask the developer why they have not made an actual Mac version. Such versions work on M1 and Intel CPUs directly.
There is no requirement from Apple. The developers of that app haven't made a Mac version at all. All they have made is an iPad version and they are relying on Apple's "Mac Catalyst" technology to run iPhone and iPad apps on a Mac.
You are not saying which App, but there is no such demand from Apple. Apple wants *Universal* binaries that have code for Intel and Apple Silicon.
Ask them why they cannot create a universal binary.
If you got to AppStore and find MySSI ( application for diving) you'll see the requirements (requires MacOS 11 and later and M1 or later chip). But the developer told the following: "we can't influence this as it's a requirement from Apple".
Of course maybe the issue is somewhere else.
I think you r right rgd App target device. I think they have developed the App mostly for iPhone and iPad. Seems it's not common to use Apps on PCs, although MacBook Air is smth different that stands between Tabs/smartphones and PCs.
Thank you very much for reply!
Thank you, I will. But seems it's a bit useless, as it requires some actions.
Thanks a lot, I will ask them!
App that requires M1 chip or later
