Installing App M1 on Intel

monib209 wrote:

I just bought the 2020 model, but it is Intel, so what is the solution? This is Apple's weakness, and it is very bad.

Buying a Mac from 2020—in 2024, when the Apple silicon architecture transition has basically completed—means you bought either the earliest Apple silicon, or bought one of the last Intel models.

Mac apps built as Universal apps will run on both Intel and Apple silicon Macs. This is pretty much any Mac app from the past decade or so.

Xcode on Mac can build for iPhone and iPad, and Universal apps for Mac.

Apps that depend on Apple silicon—such as iPhone and iPad apps—are not going to run on an Intel Mac.

iPhone and iPad apps on Apple silicon Macs - Apple Developer

Replacing the processor means replacing the Mac. Processors are immensely complex, and the ~entire mainboard is tied to the particular processor and its architecture, and further are tied to range of related implementations of that processor. Which means replacing the mainboard, and quite probably the rest of the Mac including the case due to other differences.

If a Mac with Intel x86-64 architecture doesn’t work for your needs, sell it to somebody that wants to run Windows x86-64, or such.

Apple is pressuring Developers to release their software as "Universal Binaries".

These packages contain BOTH Apple-silicon code AND Intel code, and 'which is used' is automatically selected at run-time.

It would be DEVIANT not to do that.

What app is this? if it is not contain BOTH so that you can run it on newer or older Macs, we can shame them publicly.

AFAIK, apps made exclusively for apple silicon Macs will not run on an Intel Mac.

if you absolutely need that app, it's time for a new(er) M series Mac.

monib209 wrote:

This is Apple's weakness, and it is very bad.

actually, you have that backwards. it is up to developers to ensure their apps are compatible with apple products. apple could not possibly tailor macOS to comply with the millions of apps that exist. sorry.

You have yet to NAME the App in question and the version you are trying to use, so that what you are calling a deficiency can be independently verified.