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>>janand+(OP)
The full sentence:

> And since our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or at minimal cost, you won't be continually paying for access to this growing software library.

>>ameliu+t5
They forgot to mention that the growing software library is also shrinking as they deprecate support for older OS versions and hardware. On the one hand they go to heroic lengths (fat binaries, Rosetta 2) to enable a migration to a new hardware platform but get bored in ~5 years and drop support.

"Growing software library" it ain't.

>>titzer+D9
The ARM chips in later iPhones and all M series Macs physically don’t have the hardware to run 32 bit software.

Should they still be supporting PPC software? 68K software? Why not old Apple // software for good measure?

Right now the last time I counted in 2012, there were 12 ways to define a string in Windows and you had to convert back and forth between them depending on which API you are calling. There are so many one off hacks to keep Windows running (see Raymond Chen’s blog) it’s a house of cards

>>raw_an+vo
I need to run Print Shop and Oregon Trail on my m-series iPad.

>>lowerc+LU2
I think the use case is: I paid $200 bucks for professional a program 10 years ago that still works as intended. Why take it away from me?