Adobe's cloud pricing model is abhorrent to me, and Apple forcing the hand of everyone that didn't want to jump on board with it is also shitty.
But I've had a long time to come to grips with my hatred for Adobe. Apple has only recently started making choices that carry serious negative consequences for me.
I feel the same way about their dropping of OpenGL, for what it's worth.
All organizations have limited resources. Each hour spent supporting 32 bit is an hour that could’ve been spent on more important things.
So “yesterday” doesn’t count as “recently”?
The point remains: this will still bite people.
Apple used to about things that "just work", now they're about things that "don't work anymore".
Last I checked just as this guy is nursing his old ass pre CC adobe software along nothing is stopping them from continuing with an older OS X.
Just the other day my brother told me he met a really talented graphics designer that still primarily uses some 25 year old sign design software. Never heard of it before, and don't remember the name.
We balk at having to pay monthly for software we bought over 10 years ago and even today we'd not miss any new features offered. Great artists (I'm not one of them) can produce great visuals. Limitation can be better for creativity than no restrictions for some anyway.
Are you really arguing that Windows is compatibility with the Super Nintendo because you can run an emulator?
Apple broke my working software. Emphasis on the working part. Upgrading even with one time payment software would still mean hundreds of dollars forked out because Apple broke it. If it wasn't broken I wouldn't upgrade.
If you’re cool using 6+ year old, blurry non-retina software...why do you need to upgrade to Catalina? Just stay on Mojave and you’ll be fine.
Did you really plan on using that 2012 edition of Photoshop until 2035?
It has all the features I need - nothing added in the last 6 years has been worth switching to the subscription model.
Where are the Mojave fixes for CVE-2019-8745 and CVE-2019-8769 for example? If they're not available, my point stands.
6 years isn't nearly long enough to even consider dropping support on the OS level. Try twice that.
No mainstream operating system that ran on 68000 processors in the 80's, PowerPC in the 90's and Intel since 2006 is even around today.
Y’all must have forgot how NeXTStep, which later became Mac OS X and now macOS ran on 68000, Sparc and MIPS back in the day.
The same way Apple was running Mac OS X on Intel hardware long before the first Intel Macs were released, there's got to be Arm-based MacBooks or Mac minis running macOS right now.
So it makes sense for Apple to get rid of as much technical debt as they can before making that jump.
And because of Catalyst, which enables iPad apps to be ported to macOS, there will be more apps for the Mac.
Some of the Catalyst apps have some rough edges and not all of the frameworks are available yet, but things look promising: https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/07/macos-catalina-catalyst-apps/.
Finally, Apple has been telling developers since Snow Leopard was released in 2009 about transitioning to 64-bit.
Every platform has to balance the developer experience with the user experience. Microsoft, with their incredible backwards compatibility support, has one approach, whereas Apple has a very different one.
There is no right or wrong way.
Let's face it you are cheap, you weren't willing to keep up with the Adobe products you purchased and now you want to blame someone, instead of blaming yourself, you've decided it's someone else's fault.
I have pre-CC version of the Adobe products, and I run the an older version of OSX on my Mac Pro. I'm not willing to pay the price for Adobe, but I'm also willing to take responsibility for my cheapness.
Or, hear me out here, some people can’t afford to buy new Adobe software because it’s ridiculously expensive. They’re not wealthy enough to call themselves cheap.
I can still run programs from the XP era on my Windows PC.
Apple can spend some of that massive cash reserve it has actually acting like a grown-up platform holder with responsibilities to its users.
Yes. I've been involved with the Mac user group community for many years; this is the kind of logic I've heard many times.
I just want Word 5.1 back. Is that too much to ask?
You’re stuck on a 6+ year old piece of software because Adobe moved to a higher priced cloud-based model...maybe you should be mad at Adobe...6 years ago...not Apple?