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Apple Sent Out an Ad for Apps That Some People Can’t Run
And that really upset someone in my family
If you’ve allowed Apple to send you email about new products and services, you may have seen a recent email with the subject “Apps to improve your day”. The email listed several apps and invited you to check them out in the App Store.
Someone in my family was attracted by the “Impulse” app and decided to download it. Unfortunately, he cannot, as his Mac is a 2020 iMac — an Intel Mac — and the Impulse app needs an M1 architecture.
He felt that Apple was baiting him to upgrade.
I suppose that’s somewhat true. Apple would always like you to upgrade, but in this case, I think the ad was doing what it appeared to be doing: telling you about some IOS and Mac apps you might be interested in.
Unfortunately, some of those apps cannot run on Intel.
My initial reaction was that there cannot be many apps that require M1. Why would developers restrict themselves like that? Maybe in some rare cases their app might really need the power of the M1, but that…
