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

Post by dwighttk » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

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You're not doing work for Apple, you're doing work that helps your existing customers have more secure systems.

If my customers wanted this, I would gladly budget for it. But nobody has asked for this, even when I bring it up. The reason (I imagine) is that people use my software in professional/home studios where you typically have a dedicated computer to run the software. People purchase a computer based on the recommended specs of my software, and some don't even bother connecting it to the Internet after getting everything…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

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But at least dropping PowerPC support was predicated on a legit hardware architecture change. And that new architecture actually made porting from PC much easier. This change, by contrast, feels entirely unnecessary. The amd64 architecture natively supports i386 code. I realize it makes Apple's maintenance burden lower, but, they can deal with that.

We’ve heard rumours for a few years that Apple is considering shipping MacBooks which use the Ax ARM chips that power their phones and iPad pros. Those CPUs have excellent performance per watt, and decent performance overall. If they’re planning on repeating the Rosetta play that they pulled off during the PowerPC -> Intel transition, it might make a lot of sense to deprecate i386 applications first so there is less…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 11:37 AM UTC

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The important difference is that Windows supported 16-bit for well over a decade after moving to 32-bit Windows. Well after how long the game developers intended for their games to stay relevant. The fact that I can still run Age of Empires 2 on Windows 10, from 20 years ago, is amazing compared to the backwards compatibility track records of most software. If only we all got more than ten years to port our stuff for…

The first 64-bit Macs came out 16 years ago. The first 64-bit Intel Macs came out 13 years ago. The 32-bit to 64-bit transition on the Mac has not been an abrupt one.

Post by noisem4ker » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 11:54 AM UTC

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What about all the artists who aren’t a business? What about all the hobbyists? And finally... what about all the people that aren’t rich enough to spend $$$ a YEAR on photoshop? Do they not deserve to keep using software they have already paid for, at great expense to them? Are they not worth “appeasing” because they’re not ~fortunate~ lucky enough in life, as you were? Adobe has taken away this option. All power to…

>Apple is the one here breaking software people have paid for. No, Apple is releasing brand-new software (MacOS Catalina) for free . If you can't, or don't want to run it, then don't. It honestly sounds like you think you are entitled to it for some reason.

Post by scarface74 » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 12:12 PM UTC

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Samsung and every other vendor outside of China have announced lower sales as people keep their phones longer. While everyone admits that Mac keyboards are horrible, Mac sales are so small compared to everything else Apple sells, it doesn’t really hurt their bottom line both of my roommates who have iPhone Xs are thinking about switching to Android after being plagued with constant hardware and software issues. Anecd…

As it says right on the URL, that CVE is from 2003, not 2019, and it doesn't affect any Windows version past XP.