You haven't bought anything from Apple in 5 years. You're a former customer. Period.
We actually bought a brand new Mac Pro and Cinema Display for our video guy about seven months ago. Is that recent enough for us to obtain the coveted title of "Someone Whom NewbieCanada on the MR Forums Considers a Real Customer"? Or do I have to send Apple a check every week just to stay in their good graces?
No point in pretending you were going to upgrade your 5 year-old hardware at some point in the future with the 3 year-old OS you're upset they no longer offer.
"Pretending"? Do you even know how to read? I was trying to do this just YESTERDAY, but was prevented from doing so. How the hell else do you suppose I discovered that SL is now unavailable? I would have liked to do this sooner, but as I explained, it's not that easy when you're dealing with the combined factors of Digidesign (and now Avid), Waves, and university scheduling and budgeting.
Once more—and please do try to read this time—all they had to do was give some advance warning. I got an email every day for a week reminding me to move my data from MobileMe to iCloud; perhaps they could have sent out an email or two saying "Hey, you have one month left before you're never allowed to upgrade your computer's OS again." Or am I not a recent enough customer of Apple's that I should deserve such an expenditure of resources?
Find a pirated copy - it'll be easy enough. I think Apple is pretty much OK with the idea of losing the $29 in revenue.
The fact that you think a pirated copy is a viable solution for a university speaks wonders about your level of delusion. And Apple risks losing a hell of a lot more revenue than that on hardware sales if they keep refusing to sell modern tower computers.
It's hilarious to read post after post from some member of a so-called pro community complaining about a company they give no revenue to abandoning them.
Considering that the complaints of the "so-called pro community"
rolleyes:
) mainly centre on how they desperately want to give Apple some revenue in exchange for new Mac Pros, but Apple is still charging 2012 prices for 2010 hardware, those complaints seem valid to me. What, is this some kind of Tinkerbell scenario, where if we all just give clap loud enough and throw Apple enough money for outdated hardware, they'll finally release new Mac Pros? If you're hearing the same complaint across the entire pro community (which consists of many otherwise disparate industries such as audio production, video production, and graphic design), is it possible that maybe, just maybe, those people might have a point? Or does your apparent disbelief in the existence of a pro community mean that you assume nobody uses their Mac for anything besides Facebook and maybe typing up their novel at Starbucks?
And for the record, I actually bought a personal MacBook Pro from Apple last year. So let's hear some more about how I'm a "former Apple customer". Because I sure as hell plan to become one if this kind of thing keeps up. Your "opinions" are so ridiculous that it's hard to believe you're an actual poster and not some kind of parody.
