Yes I was thinking of it from this angle as well. Quickly dropping
support for legacy things, such as 32-bit application support under
Intel for instance.
Apple is starting to come across as a monolithic, dystopian entity where
you buy your newest devices, and *anything* regarding the previous cycle
of products is quickly disposed of and washed away. You cannot find any
semblance of their history on their website, and anything documenting
their history is by people like us.
It seems like anything regarding a vintage Macintosh or iPod would taint
their carefully curated image.
On 2025-01-31 5:29 p.m., Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 31, 2025, at 11:24 AM, Cameron Kelly via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm glad Microsoft is paying respects to their history. It feels like Apple
barely does, or acts as if things that they produced before their current
product cycle don't exist.
My primary problem is that they do things that are openly hostile to those of
us that have been running on the Mac for 30+ years. Recently I needed to
access some older data, and it turned into a large project when I discovered
that not only couldn’t newer versions of MacOS not access the floppies, they
couldn’t access Mac CD-R’s. I ended up copying everything over to a Hard Drive
100’s of floppies and CD’s from DOS and Mac. Then I discovered that the latest
version of Microsoft Office *ON THE MAC* can’t read MS Office 4.2 documents
(such as MS Word 6.0). In the end I had to create emulation environments for
my old Mac and DOS systems on my current Mac laptop. It’s been useful having
access to the original dBase databases, rather than trying to access the
converted FileMaker Pro databases.
Of course prior to this, in the early days of Mac OS X, they dropped support
for AppleTalk, then AppleTalk printing. Then MacOS 9 apps, and now more
recently 32-bit MacOS Apps.
Of course Windows isn’t perfect for Backwards compatibility, a lot of us have
to keep Windows XP running (in my case as a VM on my 2010 Mac Pro), in order to
drive things like vintage film scanners.
Zane
