Given Tiger is probably the best release of OSX there ever was I question that statement.
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Apple is getting pushy
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For many of us, it is NOT that simple. Most professional 3rd party media creation hardware and software has not yet been updated or certified for Tahoe. This is especially true of recording DAW software and plugins. Apple is notorious for making unexpected changes that impact such software as well as audio interface hardware drivers. Even the recent security-related app restrictions to a “sandbox” has broken fundamental and important features (an example is ARA, for those in the know).
While you can blame the 3rd party software companies for not updating their software for the new OS, it is also unreasonable to expect them to do so every year and every time Apple makes such changes on a whim. Even Apple’s own software has been impacted by such changes. The workaround for Logic Pro is to run it using Rosetta, which not only negatively impacts the efficiency of processing within the app, but is also a solution that will not be available in the next OS release. Apple already announced that Rosetta will be retired for OS27.
Professional audio and video software and hardware can be very expensive. Creators rely on it to earn their income. They can’t take the risk that upgrading to a new OS version will render their equipment non-functional. Even worse, it can prevent accessing previous projects that utilize plugins that are no longer compatible. This is seriously a valid case of “if it ain’t broke…”
If you use your computer for anything more than browsing the web and sending email, making the decision to upgrade your OS is not simple, and it is reasonable for Apple to allow us the choice to not upgrade without nagging us to death while we are trying to be productive.
lol. It had severe performance issues and finder freezing was very common and wouldn’t even let me do basic file management. IIRC apple introduced spotlight search in Tiger, which was a hot mess. One of those release which really impacted the workflows. And the dreaded blue screen of death which was very common windows was regular on tiger too. Anyways software updates were messed up, it didn’t even know what version of OS or patches installed. I can go on and on ..
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This attitude is exactly why Apple is doing what it's doing, and why this thread exists.
Unfortunately, according to Apple, to some extent you do. A year or two ago they announced that only the current OS would be guaranteed to receive all the security upgrades, while older maintained OS's might only receive critical upgrades.
I don't know, in detail, the extent to which Apple has made good on this threat to omit some security upgrades from older maintained OS's. It's possible that while they reserved the right to do this, they didn't have any active plans to omit security upgrades from older OS's, and just put this out there mainly to get people to move to the newest system (and as a CYA if something happened if they didn't).
I suspect that, given we are protected from all critical security threats with the older OS's, we're safe using them if we practice good security hygiene (not opening files from unknown sources, etc.), which we should be doing anyways
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Rosetta isn't being removed until macOS 28 so they still have some time to address it.
Of course you are correct! A great number of Apple products users don't like others questioning what Apple does. But the only way to improve any product is by questioning its design.This attitude is exactly why Apple is doing what it's doing, and why this thread exists.
Some people make mountains out of molehills. It is a thought process that occurs everywhere, I suppose.This attitude is exactly why Apple is doing what it's doing, and why this thread exists.