by Tom Nelson
In what can be called an “oops” moment, Apple this week provided security update 2012-001 to Snow Leopard users to keep the older version of OS X in step with the security updates that were part of the OS X Lion 10.7.3 update.
Apple kept the two versions of OS X in step a bit too well. Many users are reporting that after applying the Snow Leopard security update, most, if not all, of their older applications that rely on Rosetta to run have stopped working. Office for Mac 2004, Quicken, and just about any other application that was created using the older Carbon APIs that Apple supplied for PowerPC-based Macs have stopped working.
