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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by scarface74 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:50PM (#21237737)
So I guess Apple should also have maintained support for 68K Macs indefinitely? Microsoft should have maintained support for 16 bit apps on 64 bit Windows? Should MS have also maintained support for running real mode 286 apps forever?
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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by icedchai on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:24PM (#21237873)
This is a bit different. Catalina is a casual upgrade. There is no warning during the install process. They'll see that something worked yesterday, same OS, same computer, and now it doesn't.
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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by scarface74 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:29PM (#21237901)
Yes there is.

https://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/macos-c...

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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by icedchai on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:36PM (#21237934)
If the app isn't "recently" used, it doesn't warn you. I ran into this myself.
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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by scarface74 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:41AM (#21238401)
You said “They'll see that something worked yesterday, same OS, same computer, and now it doesn't.“

So “yesterday” doesn’t count as “recently”?

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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by icedchai on Sunday October 13, 2019 @10:55AM (#21240670)
It was a poor choice of works. I didn't run Word 2011 yesterday - more like several months ago - but it would've worked yesterday before the upgrade.

The point remains: this will still bite people.

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