Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-05 00:55, RonB wrote:

On 2025-06-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 02:43:19 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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It is macOS that is “different” from how people expect a “Unix” system
to behave, not the Linuxes and BSDs. Offering a choice of GUIs (or no
GUI at all), is part of how people expect a “Unix” system to behave.

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https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/29/macos-26-rumored-to-drop-support-for- >
these-macs/
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I was surprised by that. Like the Windows 10 people who can't go forward
it sounds like Apple amy cause people with older Macs to go to Linux.

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Since Apple sells both the hardware and OS, it seems even more self-serving
for them to "obsolete" their older Macs — although Microsoft might as well
own the OEM PC hardware market since they have a near strangle hold on it.
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 You're kidding, right?
 The latest OS is macOS Sequoia 15.5...
 ...and it's compatible with Macs going back as far as 2017.
 8 years of support is more than reasonable