I guess it’s easy to argue that with so much media content streamed or purchased online these days, there’s less need for an optical drive than there once was. A few years later, Apple introduced Apple TV, a “DVD player for the 21 stCentury,” as Apple’s Steve Jobs termed it. Not so long ago in 2001 Apple launched an iMac with the slogan “Rip, mix, burn.” Those systems had two big claims to fame: iTunes and a CD-RW drive, as well as Internet access built inside. And that’s bad news because it means an essential software component used by thousands of Mac users to watch video on their machines has no future.
This modification failed to extend to 32-bit support.
Click this, and you’ll see which apps don’t yet run that way.Īpple’s DVD Player is one of these 32-bit apps, even though notes around the software claim it was last modified in the most recent macOS release - despite the version number being unchanged since 2015.
You can check which of your apps run in 32-bit in About This Mac>System Report>Applications where you’ll find a column called 64-bit. Apple has decreed death to 32-bit apps on Macs, but DVD Player is now the only remaining 32-bit application included within macOS High Sierra’s already 64-bit default software stack.
