It functions exactly the same way it always did. Snow Leopard didn’t start working when Lion was released. Windows XP still works, despite Windows 8 being the latest and greatest.
If you want newer hardware/software, well of course you have to upgrade. That’s not a vendor or operating system specific concept.
The last few OS upgrades have been free, mind you. If you need new hardware to run the latest software, then you need new hardware to run the latest software, regardless again of vendor.
Once again, you’re trying to turn something that’s a tautology into a “gotcha” point.
That should be: "Snow Leopard didn’t stop working when Lion was released"
Type, proofread, then post, not type, post, then proofread... sheesh.
Every upgrade of the apple OS, I read dozens of stories from studios whose associated hard/software stopped working. Every year. Every. Big studios and little home studios. And they are forced to pay.I upgraded my little hobby studio setup from XP to W7e2 to W764.
Microsoft worked WITH the companies. Microsoft released fixes. It all worked and not one cent was spent because nothing STOPPED working.
I run 10 year old XP programs and DRIVERS written for 32 bit XP that STILL work.
Apple makes the companies fix Apple’s mess.