Re: [NEWS] Mac App Store broken for old versions of macOS

In article <vo6qo0$3u0bg$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-08 05:32:31 +0000, Tyrone said:

On Feb 7, 2025 at 6:53:09 PM EST, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com>

wrote:

 
It's not clear if this is a temporary problem or a permananent one. One
reason why having apps only downloadable from one source is a problem
for those of us still using perfectly working older devices - it's just
another part of enforced obsolescence by tech companies.  :-(

 
Who cares?  The Mac "App Store" is even more useless than the Windows "App
Store".
 
Neither is necessary.  Everthing you want/need can be downloaded from the
developers' websites.

 
Except MacOS itself, Apple's own apps (Pages, etc.), many other apps
that the developers do not have on other websites.

The App Store has always felt very poorly implemented. I don't mind the
concept of it in principle, but it feels very un-Apple in its clunkiness.

Kinda related gripe; I have a fully-functioning, near-pristine original
iPad that I haven't been able to do a damn thing with for years as it is
unable to connect to the App Store, they cut its iOS off from connecting
to it. In an ideal world, Apple would allow for these outdated machines to
still connect and access older versions of apps (it used to be the case
that I could buy/download an app on my modern iPhone, and then visit the
App Store on the iPad and be able to download an older, compatible version
of the app - this squeezed a few more years of use out of my iPad but
can't even do that now, and I didn't realise that until I had reset it to
factory settings and went to grab a few key apps...).