On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:48 AM coroberti . <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:28 AM Thiago Macieira > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 11 June 2020 21:40:03 PDT coroberti . wrote: > > > Most people are using their Mac computers 7-10 years, yes without the > > > security updates that for some usage patterns is still fine. > > > > macOS 10.13 runs on all 64-bit Intel Macs. It's 10.14 that requires Haswell, > > which is today only 6½ years old. All macOS updates have been free for years. > > Why is anyone running anything older than 10.13? This is an honest question: > > what makes people not upgrade their Macs? > > > > Many people (teachers, tutors) in U.S. Educational systems have Mac computers. > > They are not getting their Mac for free - free Chromebook, maybe. > > The Mac hardware works correctly for them for years with their school systems > and for their professional purposes. > > They have modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome well supporting old > Mac systems, > and yes there are many of them still on 10.12 and even on 10.10. > > Modern browsers help them with Google-Docs and Office-Online and they > do not need > Safari patches for that. > > They are not earning as high as software/hardware engineering people and > paying $1500-2000 for teachers is not something you can afford. >
Why not to upgrade your Mac OS software? 1. Physiology. People are not technical enough and have a real barrier to deal with new features or changes of the UI. *If it ain't broke, don't fix it - *they think (yes, correct - security issues, but they have a rather low awareness). 2. Mac upgrade breaks your software, particularly true if you are in multimedia or education. If you do not have a license with the option to upgrade for N-years, y ou end up re-purchasing the software. This is a very common case on Mac, and a rather rare on Windows. 3. Software vendors steadily drop their support for Mac OS. For example, Dragon Dictation from Nuance last version released was for 10.13 - no more support since that. The reason for that is high cost of software support with changing API security enhancements breaking applications on an yearly basis at least. Kind regards, Robert
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