Apple needs an entire department devoted to maintaining legacy support for old hardware and software so that users can use these older tools and access their data. Apple has the resources. Doing so will benefit Apple by bringing older users into the fold where they can buy, buy, buy new services.
Old hardware should be supported as possible.
New OSs should support old hardware with graceful fallback where possible.
New hardware should support all old software.
New hardware has the computational power to emulate all the old systems.
The cost of maintaining and emulation is nominal.
There are a a tremendous amount of resources in old software from the 1990's and beyond that is not being created today. Especially true in educational software, games, small business tools and all the data that goes with them.
Offering full legacy support would benefit Apple by making it so all the old software can run on all new MacOS/iOS hardware and much butter to boot. This would help bring users forward to buy the latest and greatest hardware.
Old hardware should be supported as possible.
New OSs should support old hardware with graceful fallback where possible.
New hardware should support all old software.
New hardware has the computational power to emulate all the old systems.
The cost of maintaining and emulation is nominal.
There are a a tremendous amount of resources in old software from the 1990's and beyond that is not being created today. Especially true in educational software, games, small business tools and all the data that goes with them.
Offering full legacy support would benefit Apple by making it so all the old software can run on all new MacOS/iOS hardware and much butter to boot. This would help bring users forward to buy the latest and greatest hardware.