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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm not saying anything about hardware. But when Apple comes out with a new major version of MacOS, there are going to be a lot of breakages.
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It has to do with their corporate philosophy. Windows and PC focused businesses tend to worry about legacy compatibility. Apple is always embracing the new, so they disregard legacy compatibility. Apple abandoned the floppy disk, and the industry thought they were crazy. Same with optical drives, etc. The PC world OTOH iterates internal tech more rapidly. It truly is a difference in business models. Apple sells the whole widget, and PCs are more modular.
Apple's brazen abandonment of legacy support is a great thing when you're buying a brand new Apple computer, but a frustrating thing when you're working with an older model. I'm still cursing Tim Cook for Apple's sloppy upgrade to APFS with Maverick. They changed their OS to optimize for solid state drives instead of older hard drives, which turned my Mac mini into a paperweight. That Mac mini was only four years old at the time, but one OS upgrade crippled it. It took a lot of work to get it up and running again under the new OS, which included swapping out my hard drive to a SSD.
A lot of the recent USB–C problems people have had in these forums were only with the M1 model Macs. When Apple upgraded to the new CPU, they upgraded their USB architecture as well, which did not play nicely with Kobos.
Any rate, I believe Apple does this in part to force Mac users to upgrade their Macs. It's nice from a consumer standpoint to have a computer that will run for 7 to 10 years, but it's not great for a corporation's quarterly earnings.
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