M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS

Come on, Apple. What are you doing? I was thinking just the other day that Apple should virtualize older iPhones within the latest iPhone system software, so you could seamlessly open old apps and games (32-bit, anyone?) in their own containerized environments. I can't think why they haven't added this feature for any reason other than money grubbing.

You could even customize the containers to be completely closed off from the rest of the iPhone—no contacts, no Internet access (or high security Internet access), etc.

Come on, Apple. Do something good for once. Oh and bring back the headphone jack.

-Mark

For better or worse it's never been Apples MO to keep software working forever, that's Microsoft's schtick. PPC OSX software is gone, x86-32 OSX software is gone even on hardware that could still run it natively, AArch32 iOS software is gone, and if history is any indication it's only a matter of time before x86-64 OSX software is gone too.

One time I had to run a very old version of Eagle CAD on Linux and it turned out that even tho I had a native Linux version, it was easier to run the windows version in wine! I guess stable interfaces have their advantages.

the community has been joking that win32 is the most stable Linux api

I have a half-joking, half-serious thought: has anyone written a desktop environment for Linux that uses the Win32 API? Since Win32 is much more stable than Qt and GTK, it would be easier to target that API. The side bonus is API compatibility with Windows.

This might not have been viable 25 years ago when KDE and GNOME were in their infancy, but WINE has come a very long way since then. Standardizing on Win32 would eliminate the churn of dealing with Qt and GTK major version revisions.