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This is strictly FYI .
This morning, my iMac opened with a notice informing me that at the AppStore were two updates. I clicked "install now" and a few minutes later learned that one of the updates (to Keynote) had been successfully installed, but the other, related to my Brother MFC-J805DW printer, could not be installed at this time but "try again later".
I went to the AppStore to learn what's what, and from there to Brother's website, where I discovered that the update the AppStore wants me to try again later "works only with OS X 10.10."
That surprised me because the AppStore knows that I have 11.2.3 because that's where I got it, and it knows that I have the Brother MFC-J805DW because, when I was installing the printer, Brother's website told me to go to the AppStore for its software. But now even at LaunchPad, the AppStore icon continues to display a big red one, and I suppose will forever.
The error cannot be Apple's, right? So I'm guessing that when Brother informed the AppStore of the update, they neglected to tell them of a sentence that appears on Brother's website: "Important notice: This version works only with OS X 10.10."
Well, we all make mistakes.
I thought that maybe Apple would like to know about this. Surely its millions (billions?) of Big Sur users with Brother MFC-J805DW printers would like to know it. But evidently not.
At https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/policies/ideas.html I learned "Apple and its employees and contractors do not accept, review or consider any unsolicited ideas, works, materials, proposals, suggestions, artwork, content or the like ... "
Yes, I know, Apple's law firm wrote that when, decades ago, someone suggested an idea that Apple itself thought of on its own simultaneously, and eventually incorporated, and the submitter later sued for a piece of the action. But still ...
Or is there some box somewhere into which or from which I need to place or remove a check mark?
This morning, my iMac opened with a notice informing me that at the AppStore were two updates. I clicked "install now" and a few minutes later learned that one of the updates (to Keynote) had been successfully installed, but the other, related to my Brother MFC-J805DW printer, could not be installed at this time but "try again later".
I went to the AppStore to learn what's what, and from there to Brother's website, where I discovered that the update the AppStore wants me to try again later "works only with OS X 10.10."
That surprised me because the AppStore knows that I have 11.2.3 because that's where I got it, and it knows that I have the Brother MFC-J805DW because, when I was installing the printer, Brother's website told me to go to the AppStore for its software. But now even at LaunchPad, the AppStore icon continues to display a big red one, and I suppose will forever.
The error cannot be Apple's, right? So I'm guessing that when Brother informed the AppStore of the update, they neglected to tell them of a sentence that appears on Brother's website: "Important notice: This version works only with OS X 10.10."
Well, we all make mistakes.
I thought that maybe Apple would like to know about this. Surely its millions (billions?) of Big Sur users with Brother MFC-J805DW printers would like to know it. But evidently not.
At https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/policies/ideas.html I learned "Apple and its employees and contractors do not accept, review or consider any unsolicited ideas, works, materials, proposals, suggestions, artwork, content or the like ... "
Yes, I know, Apple's law firm wrote that when, decades ago, someone suggested an idea that Apple itself thought of on its own simultaneously, and eventually incorporated, and the submitter later sued for a piece of the action. But still ...
Or is there some box somewhere into which or from which I need to place or remove a check mark?