Support should prepare themselves for a barrage of tickets from people complaining that their brand new Mac can’t run Roon Core -
The issue that Slim is referring to is that “any” new Mac laptop used to be able to run Roon which included the server portion. The new laptops will not be able to function as a core. And I can easily see a TON of confusion, and forums support posts.
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Don’t. All discussion is good. Especially to get the message out. There have been decades of expectation baked into form factor.
And as of yet, we don’t know what the big fruit’s marketing of the product will look like. They educate users on the difference. I can’t imagine that it is only with Roon that users might get a surprise, other software might also not run as they expected.
For example, if they describe it as a new and inexpensive MacBook, confusion will occur. If they call it something like MacPad, and describe it an iPad in notebook form. Then there will be a lot less confusion.
It’s not that simple. We have a significant timeframe before ARM based Macs become a popular thing and even “today” ARM support for most recent Apple API is a few config changes in Xcode and I suppose Apple will being in more tools that will examine current codebase and flag items that may not work or will work poorly in the transition.
As for Roon it’s going to depend on how custom their software is. In areas that they use core Apple API and Frameworks it’s going to be trivial. The struggle will be in their unique code that allows them to target multiple platforms.
Frankly I don’t think it’ll be too difficult. We’re to see at least 2 WWDC conferences before ARM Macs take off and that’s a lot of work and preparation that will occur. I expect the transition to be really smooth for people that don’t require virtualization.
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