On: Adobe Photoshop ships on Macs with Apple Silicon

[unicornfinder]

Indeed. It's why Photoshop for Mac won't run an Ryzen systems - it's optimised to the point where it relies on specific Intel CPU instructions.

[dannyw → unicornfinder]

Kinda a cool benefit of having a Mac. Serious optimisations by developers.

[xxs → dannyw]

The windows one likely have them, except they have the codepaths for all processors.

[oauea → dannyw]

Yeah, restricting the hardware your software can run on is super cool!

[dylan604 → oauea]

This happens in Linux apps as well. Vendors like Discrete will have restrictions on what kernel version, which distro, what hardware that is really no different. With a Mac, you just don't have a choice on the hardware to install. On Linux, you have a choice, but only from the 2 options listed and you have to build it yourself.