Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
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Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#2This is why Microsoft is the better long-term play: Backwards compatibility -- their commitment to the investment of labor. If you build your software on Apple, there almost certainly will come a point in the future where your code will cease to work.
Microsoft has made a commitment to backward compatibility. It's such a huge benefit. I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for decades. I don't have to upgrade my development environment. I don't have to buy a new laptop to run the latest xcode. I never have to worry that my years of investment into my own software platform will be worthless three years from now or require unknown amounts of recoding to work.
This is not true of Apple, Ruby, or almost any open source project.
I want to continue moving forward all the time. I loathe the requirement to go back and redo what I'd already done and works. It wastes my time, my money, and my confidence in my vendor.
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#3I would guess these apps are insecure in some way.
I've been a loyal Apple user for 20 years, and in my experience every decision Apple makes is based on extremely logical and intelligent reasons though they don't always publish said reasons.
But I would suspect macOS is the most advanced OS ever designed because of the little things like this that put it a cut above the trainwreck that is Windows 10 or Linux. You gotta cut out the cancer before it ruins your platform.
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#4I would guess these apps are insecure in some way. I've been a loyal Apple user for 20 years, and in my experience every decision Apple makes is based on extremely logical and intelligent reasons though they don't always publish said reasons. But I would suspect macOS is the most advanced OS ever designed because of the little things like this that put it a cut above the trainwreck that is Windows 10 or Linux. You go…
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Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#5Perhaps these apps were already well beyond supported? I don't use anything except 1Password on the list at the link and the current supported version is 7. Version 2.x would have been sometime and many security updates ago, non?
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#6Perhaps these apps were already well beyond supported? I don't use anything except 1Password on the list at the link and the current supported version is 7. Version 2.x would have been sometime and many security updates ago, non?
On Windows it is perfectly reasonable to expect aps running even if they are 20 or sometimes 30 years old.
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#7I would guess these apps are insecure in some way. I've been a loyal Apple user for 20 years, and in my experience every decision Apple makes is based on extremely logical and intelligent reasons though they don't always publish said reasons. But I would suspect macOS is the most advanced OS ever designed because of the little things like this that put it a cut above the trainwreck that is Windows 10 or Linux. You go…
It's got nothing to do with security. These (versions of) apps do not include 64-bit builds, which is required for Catalina support.
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#8This is why Microsoft is the better long-term play: Backwards compatibility -- their commitment to the investment of labor. If you build your software on Apple, there almost certainly will come a point in the future where your code will cease to work. Microsoft has made a commitment to backward compatibility. It's such a huge benefit. I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for decades . I don't have to upg…
I feel the same. I started a project just four years ago, and now I feel that I'll need to rewrite a huge portion of the graphics code to work with future Mac versions.
I also have a lesser fear that in order for my application to work on some future version of Windows, I'll need to deal with code signing and directory access rights nonsense in order for customers to think that the software "works properly". But that's just speculative. Apple's already doing it.
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#9This is why Microsoft is the better long-term play: Backwards compatibility -- their commitment to the investment of labor. If you build your software on Apple, there almost certainly will come a point in the future where your code will cease to work. Microsoft has made a commitment to backward compatibility. It's such a huge benefit. I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for decades . I don't have to upg…
And I have New Yorker's Digital Archive which doesn't except in my VM with an old Windows XP.
Nobody is perfect and you can't rely on anyone to solve this problem for you.
Re: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
#10I would guess these apps are insecure in some way. I've been a loyal Apple user for 20 years, and in my experience every decision Apple makes is based on extremely logical and intelligent reasons though they don't always publish said reasons. But I would suspect macOS is the most advanced OS ever designed because of the little things like this that put it a cut above the trainwreck that is Windows 10 or Linux. You go…
It's got nothing to do with security. These (versions of) apps do not include 64-bit builds, which is required for Catalina support.
Well, like I said, cutting out the cruft. 32-bit is obsolete - it's 2019 for heaven's sake. Maybe these companies will put forth more of an effort to keep their software up to snuff.