Mar 23, 2021 Editor's note: Google Duo is available only on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. You can try one of Mac alternatives: Zoom or Skype. Google Duo for Mac is a simple video and voice calling app available for the Android and iOS operating systems. This service allows making high-quality calls and sending video messages to help you always stay in. The maximum version of Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS supported by each G3 and later Mac follows. For complete specs on a particular system, click the name of the Mac. For all Macs that are compatible with a specifc maximum supported version of Mac OS X - courtesy of EveryMac.com's Ultimate Mac Sort - click the OS of interest. Google Chrome is preferred by two-thirds of browser users across platforms, securing that position by serving as a major platform of compatibility for web apps, and should not be confused for Chrome OS which is an operating system. Licensed as proprietary freeware, Chrome uses the Apple WebKit rendering engine for iOS versions.
Still rocking an early Intel Macbook or iMac? If so, you might want to grab the nearest rock and hide underneath: you’re about to become Chromeless.
Google is to quietly retire support for 32-bit versions of OS X later this year. The plan was announced, in traditional ‘bury bad news’ style, in the middle of the release post for the 64-bit Chrome beta for Mac.
The news means anyone using a 32-bit only Intel Macbook, iMac or Mac Mini won’t be able to update to newer versions of Chrome from later next month. The cull is largely confined to hardware sold between January 2006 and August 2007 and using an Intel Core Solo or Core Duo processor.
As sad as the news is it’s not entirely unexpected. Apple no longer provides updates or newer releases of their operating systems for systems running 32-bit Intel CPUs.
Users of affected platforms will still be able to use Chrome after the axe, however it will not receive any future updates. Other browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, are likely to remain available and updated in 32-bit versions.
Chromium being an open-source project means that, in theory, there’s nothing to stop community ports filling the seat vacated by Chrome proper. But it won’t be an easy (or worthwhile) feat, as Opera told us:
@omgchrome Chromium is our upstream; we're patching (and upstreaming) a lot. Maintaining an entire arch might be too costly for little gain.
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— Opera (@opera) September 4, 2014
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This change does not affect Windows users. 32-bit builds of Chrome for Windows are not being retired. Do not panic. Proceed to pass Go and collect 200 credits.