VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake

Re:VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake by arprocter on Saturday March 23, 2024 @09:26AM (#39799773)

I used to roll my eyes at the 'Apple = planned obsolescence' thing; but on the macOS side OpenCore pretty much proves that it's true

The amount of hardware that's been thrown away just because they decided it's time you bought a new Mac is insane

We're about to see something similar when Windows 10 hits end of life, and everything without a TPM will get trashed

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Re:VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake by MissTake on Saturday March 23, 2024 @09:56AM (#39799975)

Still rocking my MBP from 2015 playing all the 32 bit games on it.

I use a 2019 MBP at work which I do all my development on with JetBrains, DBeaver, Postgre Server and Podman on.

And I also have a home M1 MBA which is my take anywhere device for when we need a full blown computer.

Even my old iPad Pro 9.7 is in use as a monitor on my work machine.

Not seeing this need to throw devices out yet just because there are newer flashier machines out there.

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Re:VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake by arprocter on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:12AM (#39800060)

Apple supports the last 3 named OS versions - anything older won't be getting security updates

Which strangely means if you have an Intel Mac that Apple dropped support for, you could run Windows 10 and still be supported until next year

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Re:VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake by MissTake on Saturday March 23, 2024 @11:05AM (#39800465)

Not sure your point, here.

If Apple don’t release MacOS 15 for my 2019, even by your statement, I’d still be supported until mid 2026, and not have to change my OS.

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