PowerPC applications no longer supported...Lion

WOW Apple, how about putting out a complete list of that reads....

THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS WILL NO LONGER WORK ONCE YOU INSTALL LION 10.7.2

Followed by the list... as customers we have come to expect top notch quality with a system that is smooth and intuitive. This really show a lack of professionalism or consideration on Apples behalf.

So far Microsoft Office/Word

and Unreal 2004 are now D.O.A.

I expect better

Beemer2,

I had expected better from you too. Please read the ENTIRE thread. I put up a user tip that includes a link to just such a list. This is a user to user forum. So read first, then consider what you post. I don't post just for the sake of posting. I post because I hope some people might use the suggestions I post to make informed decisions.

Here's that tip once more in case you are incapable of scrolling:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2465

Thank you.

I'm sorry, but your complaining and others like it are very childish. Lion was release four and a half months ago. It was know long before even then that Rosetta was not going to be included. To have missed this in a span of over six months means you purchased and installed a major OS upgrade without spending one minute of time to see if it would fit your needs.

I've noted it elsewhere numerous times, but you should also be aware that Apple neither wrote, nor ever owned the rights to Rosetta. It was written by Transitive Corporation. The code for Rosetta is now owned by IBM under the name PowerVM.

The only work Apple had to put into Rosetta (though no small feat itself) was incorporating the PowerPC to Intel translator into OS X so it would work unobtrusively. But either the licensing rights to use the translator ran out, cost too much to continue using it, or Apple just had no intention of bringing it forward into a third version of OS X.

Just for your info, it has been on three versions, but not on a fourth. Rosetta was incorporated on 10.4.4 to 10.4.11 for Macs that were purchased before 10.5's release. It was there in 10.5, and 10.6. In 10.6 it was an optional install.

Apple has done similar transitions in the past. FAT Binary to PowerPC, Mac OS 9 - Classic - Leopard dual boot into Mac OS 9 to no Mac OS 9 in 10.6, and now the Rosetta transition.

Just for your info, it has been on three versions, but not on a fourth.

Yes! You're correct. I usually don't count that one since not all that many users have an Intel Mac which came with Tiger. Though I actually have one here in a Core Duo 2 iMac. The retail release of Tiger, 10.4 (as I'm sure you know) only came as PowerPC.

Blimey Kurt & a brody - you two know some stuff 😎. This is why I like coming here, I learn something every day.

Boy count me as a plus 1 on that comment. I've found Brody and Kurt to be not only a wealth of knowledge but level headed and rational. Thanks guys I appreciate your hard work!

@ A Brody & Kurt Lang

My aplogies if I insulted you....I was not posting to just be posting, I was just a bit alarmed when I saw what was going on with my system. I do keep up with my updates, but I also have to contend with my daughter who is dying right before my eyes. So before you just blast people you might consider that they have more than just computers on their minds. I have ALWAYS found this forum very helpful and accurate. But apparently I am below perfection.

Keep up the good work

No, you didn't personally insult me in any way. At this point, it is just considered rather lame to complain about the lack of ability to run PPC software in Lion when by now, it should have been very easy to look this up before purchasing and installing 10.7.x.

Sorry to hear about your daughter. That is a terrible thing to have to deal with for any parent, any time of year.

I too am sorry to hear about your daughter. I am not insulted either. Wish you all the best of luck. When you feel up to it again, feel free to start a new thread to help yourself with decisions on the migration.

I agree, Kurt, that homework needs to be done when switching to a new OS; it's something, as "sophisticated" users we wouldn't neglect. But Apple, itself, on the main announcement/advertisement for Lion, which is all many people read (and I don't think it should be necessary for anyone to go much deeper for this kind of very basic information), states nowhere, not even in the "fine print," that support for PPC apps has been dropped.

I don't think Apple was obligated to list specific programs that would no longer work, but I do think they were obligated to at least give a heads-up of some kind, which they didn't do. I don't know if this would have made any difference in Beemer2's situation, but I think most people,"sophisticated" or not, would assume Apple would tell them something as important as this. My opinion.

It was stated in the fine print:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3938

But Apple, itself, on the main announcement/advertisement for Lion, which is all many people read (and I don't think it should be necessary for anyone to go much deeper for this kind of very basic information), states nowhere, not even in the "fine print," that support for PPC apps has been dropped.

That is a very true statement. Finding this information is extremely easy, if you're looking anywhere other than Apple's site. Apple themselves very much low-keyed this information. Almost hidden in a sense.

As a brody noted, it is referred to in a Knowledge Base article, but those aren't something most users even know how to look up.

Thanks...and again ... for me it was just another issue that was thrown on top of another and I was -done-.You guys are the best...when it all slows down for me ...I will be back at it...and its really not a big thing....I vented in the wrong place, wrong time.

All the best to you and yours .

Not a little late? The horses had already escaped. And not exactly something easy to find, either.

a brody wrote:

It was stated in the fine print:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3938