Dear Apple,

Install Rosetta for people with Apple Silicon computers.

It will prevent so many questions and so much confusion about what Rosetta is and why I need to install it. Providing a choice is not empowering if the maker of the choice does not understand what they’re choosing.

If you insist on asking people, as if they can make an informed choice, then provide them context written in plain English, what Rosetta is and why you need it. And I mean very basic, easy to understand language that doesn’t rely on other technical knowledge. If you can’t, then install it.

For those curious, Rosetta will let your printer driver or older versions of software work with your new Apple computer.

Rosetta works automatically in the background whenever you use an app that was built only for Mac computers with an Intel processor. It translates the app for use with Apple silicon.

But if you have to ask the user to install it, they may never benefit from it.

For those curiouser, here’s what Apple says about it. If you need to install Rosetta on your Mac - Apple Support