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by smoyer 3061 days ago
Clearly your server is obsolete ... and this describes why my last ever Apple purchase was in 2012.

I bought an iPad 1 ... it's still a wonderful piece of hardware and I (try to) use it for web browsing nearly every day. Unfortunately, Apple realized that it was under-powered just after the iOS 5 release and it hasn't gotten updates since early 2014. It works fine except that it also doesn't have a browser that will run current protocols and standards. Sigh!
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PhasmaFelis 3061 days ago
> Clearly your server is obsolete

The server works as well as it ever did. The problem is entirely in the software used on the client machines. That's not what "obsolete" means.

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smoyer 3061 days ago
Sorry ... I should know by now that sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet. But the truth is that the server is de-facto obsolete if there are no clients that can talk to it. Hopefully my second paragraph is clear that I don't appreciate planned obsolescence.
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Spooky23 3061 days ago
It is. With a design focused company, everything you do on the system is thought through and designed — your copying of a file is part of a user story that somebody wrote.

Unlike Microsoft, Apple tends to focus on one or two ways to solve a problem. Generally speaking, if you’re having trouble doing something on a Mac (as a user) and it seems very difficult, you’re off the path and would be better to start over and rethink what you are doing.

When you’re doing something like relying on a deprecated protocol that Apple barely gave a shit about, you’re on thin ice. At best there are a couple of engineers and a strategic customer who care about the feature and it will sort of keep working. If not, you are out of luck.

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efaref 3061 days ago
Your server ran 2018 software back in 2012?! That's amazing!
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qplex 3061 days ago
Planned obsolescence is cancer. It's not just Apple that does it though.
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akvadrako 3060 days ago
Planned obsolescence is literally the opposite of cancer.
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qplex 3059 days ago
It's an expression of speech for distaste of the malignant practice of making something redundant even if there was no need to do that;

Much like even if a human soul would rather not perish but yet there was a class of malignant diseases that will make it.

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