Remember, we paid a steep premium coming though the door for Apple products. Or I can't use half the new iPhone > Mac continuity features and yet, I can use some of them only when Mac > Mac.) I cannot Screencast to Airplay through Apple TV on my 2010 MPB, but 2011s can. Siri wasn't available for iPhone 4 but there was no technical reason why it couldn't run, and in fact if you JB'd your device, you could run Siri via a hack. I am almost inclined to think Yosemite's hidden motive was as a mechanism to induce owners to purchase new computers by using a font really perfected for Retina / Retina 5K screens at the eye-straining expense of non-Retina users and nuetering features not for lack of any technical functional reason - a method which they began employing on iPhone (e.g. Of course Freemium methodology is just a new spin on the old "Razor and Blades" business model and by nature dictates that consumers are pushed to buy incremental services or products, or in the case of hardware, a new device every 2/3 years through either planned obsolescence or slowly cutting users off from new features, something which Apple has become particularly coy and adept at. You'd be surprised how much profit and manpower can be gobble up attempting to support multiple OS's or tweak code and features to work across each iteration of OS.
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They have merely migrated to the Freemium business model.įirst, Apple & software developers realized the best way to reduce their development and support costs was to get as many people on the same version of an OS and platform as technically feasible, and the best way to execute this was by giving it away for free.
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I hope no one is naive enough to believe this.
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Well, I certainly lather on the praise when needed but temper this knowing it's not altruism on Apple's part guys.