Comment by first_ad4972@sh.itjust.works on My IT teachers libre imrpess slide show

Why do Mac updates cost money?

They actually used to, until like 10 years ago. This comic is from before then.

I remember going to the Apple Store and picking up Snow Leopard on a DVD. Good times.

Very nice. I remember gazing longingly at all things Mac during this era. But then I found Ubuntu, and then Debian… and that was that.

They don’t anymore. This is a very old reference!

Don’t give them ideas

They already used to charge for major updates (just like Microsoft did).

Indirectly. Because perfectly well working hardware loses support constantly, long before you would actually need to replace it. Same planned obsolescence via artificially shortened support time frames as Android.

Nope. It’s just a 10+ year old meme from when they used to charge.

I assume it’ll say your device doesn’t support the new version if your computer is more than 6 months old, so you’re constantly forced to buy the newest latest model

People like to perpetuate this about Apple, but it’s really not true. I’ve had my Mac for… over ten years? It can get the most recent version of Catalina, which was updated until 2022. It’s still going strong and I use it every day.

You should 100% not be using a system that doesn’t receive security updates.

So why did my 2011 iMac never receive anything beyond High Sierra?

(Edit: was confused about versions, don’t mind me)

You have an older model than mine, I have a mid 2012 Macbook Pro, that may be why

I confused versions and thought there was a bigger gap between High Sierra and Catalina than there actually is, my bad

Can confirm, my early 2011 MBP still works a dream, but I can’t go past High Sierra. Late 2011 models can. Ah well.

Apple perpetuates this about apple. I have a 10 yr old ipad that is stuck on ios (not ipad os) 9 while unix, linux and windows manage to work on 20 yr old machine.

Windows 11 works on a 20yr old machine?

I didnt say that. But as someone else pointed out: I did make a mistake saying that windows in general does. But the other two do which still proves my point especially since unix is the base for mac os. Linux is the absolute craziest of the bunch since it pretty much rund on anything.

Your completely wrong with windows support.

Windows 11 only supports 64 bit processers. The first consumer 64bit processers were released in 2003. Many machines made in 2003 wouldn’t have this.

Windows 11 requires UEFI which want introduced till 2006.

Windows also requires TPM 2. TPM was defined in 2009. TPM 2 was defined in 2014.

Windows 11 gpu needs direct x 11 support, first published in 2014.

You would need a machine that has cutting edge hardware in 2014. To get it to possibly support windows 11.

Ok, I made a mistake with windows. Can we now talk about the point I made?

It’s difficult to get good support on Linux as well. Most of it is volunteers and that effort is spread over many different projects. Consistent long term support for Linux is only available for commercial operations. For personal computing apple has the best long term support for hardware.

The benefit of Linux is the flexibility and the broad range of options that can be applied to support older hardware. But this requires the users to apply them in a way that can be inaccessible for some people or inconvenient for power users/small businesses.

Technically Linux can provide long term support. Practically, it can’t do it in a useful way. Linux still struggles to support new hardware out the box - this is improving.

Linux has achieved a great many things. Whilst being free and open. But nobody talks about supporting ten year old Linux tablets or even using them. That’s because they are in landfills or museums. Your iPad is still useful.

Sure. But the point was that apple is not unfairly but correctly being targeted with massive criticism for anti competitive and anti consumer behavior.

I use Arch btw

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