Apple sure does have this ‘planned obsolescence’ thing down pat....
Apple sure does have this ‘planned obsolescence’ thing down pat....
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Some of us call it “continuous improvement”. As long as it is change for the better I’m OK with change—nothing stays still.
What are you talking about?
OS X.11 El Capitan's compatibility list:
That's eight years old or newer Macs are being supported with the newest OS X iteration, where's the "planned obsolescence," ErnBatavia? The older Macs still run on the older OS X. If they cannot run OS X El Capitan, it generally is because they lack the hardware to do so, not because Apple is deliberately locking them out. They just physically lack the ability to run some of the important upgrades in the newer version.
I have clients who are quite happily using ten year old Macs. . . they work, so they are not obsolete.
”Planned obsolescence” relates to the intentional holding back of features from present products with a view to gratuitously inducing customers to upgrade in the near future. Digital electronics has been subject to Moore’s Law, which predicts geometrically improving product cost-effectiveness. There is no need to “plan” obsolescence in devices subject to Moore’s Law; rapid obsolescence inheres in the development process. Caveat emptor; under Moore’s Law conditions nobody should buy a new digital device unless they feel it will be worth at least half its price just in the first two years. Otherwise, it will pay to wait - and no vendor will be able to convince you otherwise.In that dynamic marketplace, deliberately degrading your product is a good way to see your lunch eaten by a competitor. What could look like "planned obsolescence" is conservatism in seeking to avoid selling buggy software with too much vulnerability to malware.
There was a time when it seemed necessary to carefully husband your disk space; Moore’s Law has taken hold in that context, and now it is (IMHO) sensible to consider that if you run out of disk space you can simply upgrade to a much larger disk with far less aggravation.
True. But the OS updates are free. Of course, older devices can’t run it.