I’m baffled by these contradictions. Apple, the same company that makes its products harder and harder to repair, still has servers online waiting for you to download updates for Snow Leopard—an operating system launched in 2009 and discontinued in 2014, built for processors Apple hasn’t sold in its computers for years.
#apple #retrocomputing #retromac #macos #macintosh
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