Warning: TurboTax 2024 STILL NOT Apple Silicon Ready!

[romad]

I had to end up buying a new MacBook Air to use TurboTax to do my 2024 taxes. I ended up buying an M2 MBA and since it has been 5 years since the first Apple Silicon Mac were released, I figured TT would run on my MBA. Nope, when I tried to launch it after installing it, I was told I had to still install Rosetta for it to run.

Why does Intuit refuse to release an Apple Silicon version?

[rjs]

TurboTax does not tell us the reasons for their marketing decisions. If they do not support a particular platform, I would assume that it's because they feel that the market is too small to sell enough copies to cover the development cost.

[romad]

Apple doesn't make any Intel Macs, they are now all Apple Silicon. However, I may have found the answer: The LAST version of MacOS that WILL run on Intel chips is the current MacOS 15 "Sequoia". So TurboTax 2025 and subsequent versions will have to run on both Intel AND Apple Silicon chips for several years.

[Alohart]

TurboTax 2023 was built with a current version of Apple's Xcode development app.  Building a universal binary that would run natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon CPU's is merely a matter of checking an Xcode setting.  Maybe Intuit uses only old Intel Macs to build TurboTax or has no Apple Silicon Macs on which to test TurboTax.  If so, this is just lazy.

While Rosetta will run Intel binaries on Apple Silicon in emulation mode, it's not as fast as running natively, so TurboTax is slower than it could be when running on Apple Silicon.  We TurboTax customers who run modern Apple computers pay the performance price even though we pay the full price for TurboTax.  This is just inexcusable!

[romad]

Alohart, the question is about TT 2024 not 2023.