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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1842652" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>That approach would not be in Apple's long term interest. If it came to light that the "plan" at Apple is to make people's systems fail in order to force them to buy new, nobody would buy in the first place. What Apple has done, throughout their life, is to avoid entanglements with older technology as they move on to newer and better implementations. They abandoned the original Motorola chips for PowerPC, then abandoned that for Intel and if rumors are true, are looking now to go in-house for CPUs with their own chips. The OS has, in each case, moved along with the hardware with little looking back. They did provide Rosetta when they moved to Intel, but abandoned that a couple of releases along. They abandoned 32 bit software with the move to Catalina. If they create their own in-house chip, they may or may not support Intel applications for a while (frankly, given how hard as that might be, I suspect they won't do that). So, whenever they abandon Intel, you can expect them to create the OS for that new technology and let the Intel systems slowly fade into obsolescence. Not that any user is being "forced" to do anything, as Charlie has pointed out. But if the new OS has a feature that you really desperately need, you are going to need to save up the coins to get that feature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1842652, member: 396914"] That approach would not be in Apple's long term interest. If it came to light that the "plan" at Apple is to make people's systems fail in order to force them to buy new, nobody would buy in the first place. What Apple has done, throughout their life, is to avoid entanglements with older technology as they move on to newer and better implementations. They abandoned the original Motorola chips for PowerPC, then abandoned that for Intel and if rumors are true, are looking now to go in-house for CPUs with their own chips. The OS has, in each case, moved along with the hardware with little looking back. They did provide Rosetta when they moved to Intel, but abandoned that a couple of releases along. They abandoned 32 bit software with the move to Catalina. If they create their own in-house chip, they may or may not support Intel applications for a while (frankly, given how hard as that might be, I suspect they won't do that). So, whenever they abandon Intel, you can expect them to create the OS for that new technology and let the Intel systems slowly fade into obsolescence. Not that any user is being "forced" to do anything, as Charlie has pointed out. But if the new OS has a feature that you really desperately need, you are going to need to save up the coins to get that feature. [/QUOTE]
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