Philipp van Hüllen wrote:
Robert Kaiser schrieb:
Not really, they just won't deliver updates for it or Leopard any more
(they have already stopped delivering updates for Tiger a long time ago)
but they have a habit of just not talking about such end-of-line
decisions and just silently not do any updates any more.
AFAIK the strategy on OS side is rather clear: Active support for the
current OS (the minor releases), security support for the last major
release, no support for older stuff.
Thus I currently expect them to drop PPC support this summer, when 10.7
is released.
(Also got a PPC still running around here (7 years old) - works as
nicely as any of todays' netbooks.)
I still have a G4 Sawtooth (close to 15 years old?) running, and it's
still a nice living room terminal.
Otherwise they usually perform some creeping death for legacy items:
10.5 last OS on PPC, 10.6 last OS with PPC emulation, 10.7 no PPC
support at all. It was similar with the "classic" environment.
Actually, 10.5.x was the last Classic supporting release - had I
realized that I wouldn't have upgraded my G5 iMac to 10.5.8. And I
can't set that machine up for dual boot, which would have been a nice
work-around...
Positively speaking: they like to focus on using the new stuff. ;-)
(New HW, new APIs, ... - makes better/leaner technology and better
sales, as long as users go along with it. You need recent/supported OS X
(10.5+) to support iOS 4 devices - WinXP is still supporting those. Funny?)
Sorry for the off-topic post...
BR/Philipp
OK by me...
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