Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina

Post by deergomoo » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 8:20 PM UTC

behnamoh wrote: post #58

threeseed wrote: post #24

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2019 and you're still bringing up Flash ? And if you do own a Mac which I highly doubt you would know that nothing really has changed. I can still run the apps I want. I can still use Homebrew to install CLI tools and libraries. I still don't need to use the App Store. The only difference is that they finally got rid of 32-bit support which was a decision years in the making.

I don't have to prove to you that I own a Mac. Plus, bringing up flash was to further explain my point, which is, Apple getting rid of certain technologies in the computer sector as if they are the leader of the market which they are not. They already are struggling to keep their current users, and a move like this (getting rid of 32-bit apps) further decreases their market share.

Post by scarface74 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

gruturo wrote: post #46

scarface74 wrote: post #36

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It’s been 10 years since Apple released a 64 bit OS and the last 32 bit x86 based Mac.

Yeah that looks like a lot of time, except we're looking at some hard evidence saying it wasn't, after all. Apple helped push forward the state of the art on many things by dropping legacies (No floppy. No CD. No more serial, parallel, scsi, PS/2 ports), but on some it just hurt its own customers with excessive eagerness (USB-C and dongle hell. Headphone jacks, where the ideal timing would have been NEVER. And this v…

Post by bsamuels » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

greggman2 wrote: post #77

cousin_it wrote: post #50

Funny thing about games: most revenue happens soon after release. It's like movies. A game from several years ago usually has low ongoing revenue, so there's little profit in updating it for a new OS. Many Mac games will just die. Especially indies, where the creator might have already moved on. Do you own any nice but not very successful Mac games? They'll die. This move destroys the reputation of Mac as a game plat…

Time to run them in a VM with and old OS the same as older games?

Post by cpach » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 8:26 PM UTC

gamblor956 wrote: post #52

scarface74 wrote: post #11

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And how much has it cost Microsoft? Apple was able to successfully take the base of MacOS and port it’s operating system to a much lower spec phone back in 2007 and came to dominate the smart phone market (in profit they only thing that matters), the tablet market where MS failed repeatedly, not to mention it was able to port the base OS to everything from Watches and TV set top boxes - all things that Microsoft trie…

And how much has it cost Microsoft? Are we really worried about how much money it will cost to the company with the largest free-cash pile in the world? They have literally tens of billions of dollars of cash literally just sitting around doing nothing. They can afford to throw 0.0001% of that at maintaining backward compatibility.

Post by Sendotsh » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 8:27 PM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #65

cousin_it wrote: post #50

Funny thing about games: most revenue happens soon after release. It's like movies. A game from several years ago usually has low ongoing revenue, so there's little profit in updating it for a new OS. Many Mac games will just die. Especially indies, where the creator might have already moved on. Do you own any nice but not very successful Mac games? They'll die. This move destroys the reputation of Mac as a game plat…

On the hand, most people stop playing most games pretty quickly after purchase, too. And the good ones often get remade. So, while this will disappoint some people, I think "destroys the reputation" is a bit much. Many game buyers don't care that much.