At one point when I enjoyed using Apple hardware I had PPC software. The switch to x86 was supposed to be seamless. Emulation was eventually taken away, however.
I'm not up for trusting Apple through another CPU change. Thankfully I've switched to a Thinkpad running Linux. Even more rugged and honestly works a bit better than MacOS these days for me.
I owned a Mac Mini from the pre-x86 days. I'm convinced Apple only does this shit so they force obsolescence upon a bunch of hardware that otherwise still works fine.
Meanwhile, Windows 10 will run on 14-year-old-computers, provided they were purchased with something like a core 2 duo at the time.
Yes they did this when they released Catalina and forced all App developers, including me, to upgrade their old Mid-2011 Macs, as it's not supported to run Xcode for app development, even though they are capable machines and run everything else fine. Just go look at Amazon and you can find a bunch of Old macs for sale, that won't be able to be upgraded, and now there is a new Big Sur OS coming out, I'm sure they will make more Macs not upgradeable The endless cycle of Apple app development and updating thing
Fool me once. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not up for trusting Apple through another CPU change. Thankfully I've switched to a Thinkpad running Linux. Even more rugged and honestly works a bit better than MacOS these days for me.
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I owned a Mac Mini from the pre-x86 days. I'm convinced Apple only does this shit so they force obsolescence upon a bunch of hardware that otherwise still works fine.
Meanwhile, Windows 10 will run on 14-year-old-computers, provided they were purchased with something like a core 2 duo at the time.
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Yes they did this when they released Catalina and forced all App developers, including me, to upgrade their old Mid-2011 Macs, as it's not supported to run Xcode for app development, even though they are capable machines and run everything else fine.
Just go look at Amazon and you can find a bunch of Old macs for sale, that won't be able to be upgraded, and now there is a new Big Sur OS coming out, I'm sure they will make more Macs not upgradeable
The endless cycle of Apple app development and updating thing
Re:Fool me once. (Score:2)
Right, and if you support an iPhone app on new phones, you have to keep your macOS platform current. A curious dependency.