6mo ago

Why don’t you like Apple?

Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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Planned obsolescence: the other day I was setting up a refurbished MacBook air from 2017. It officially runs only up to macOS 12. I wanted to install apple's productivity suite iWorks (pages, keynotes, numbers) on it.
But the AppStore said I would need macOS 13 to download and install it. Why the eff doesn't it allow me to install an older version of those apps, and why does the 2017 not support macOS 13?
So I installed Open core Legacy Patcher, built a macOS 13 installer. Installed 13 with absolutely no issues and finally was able to install iWorks.
Any non versed or risk taking user would need to buy a newer Mac... good job apple.
- Conversely I have a dell xps from 2018 that run very well with fedora atomic (kde). I upgraded the SSD, WiFi card and replaced the battery. Should easily last me another 5 years
  
  User repairability and serviceability should be(come) mandatory!
  
  It's Intel, you too can have fedora atomic, and it'll likely last another 5 years.
  
  If it would be my device and not a gift I would, yeah :)
  
  Ahh, not so sure how great a gift an insecure computer is, but I imagine you have your reasons...
  
  Uhm how would be it insecure?
  
  OS hasn't been updated for how many years?
  
  But the giftee can also update to Sonoma.
  
  My bad, I didn't read 'built a macOS 13 installer', but now they must return for 'built a macOS 14 installer'.
  
  For some strange reason the control panel shows the update to macOS 14 even though when it was still on macOS 12 it didn't show any updates.
  I told the giftee if they want to update that they please make a backup first.

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