[azalemeth]

I'd love to know the "true" histogram of MacOS versions. I'm currently typing this on a machine running Mojave as it is the last one to support 32-bit code. I bet I am not the only one – 10.14 happens to match up with the last "perpetually licensed" adobe suite, for example, as well as older versions of Office.

I'm sure Apple know exactly how many people they inconvenience at any given point, and make a calculated decision about support.

[Toutouxc]

According to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey [0], where the 32-bit thing hit really hard, the numbers could look a little like this:

  MacOS 11.6.0:  11.22%
  MacOS 11.5.2:   2.87%
  MacOS 10.16.0: 44.92%
  MacOS 10.15.7: 11.66%
  MacOS 10.14.6:  6.80%
  MacOS 10.13.6:  6.41%
  Other          16.12%

According to this other usage plot [1] it doesn't like the number of people staying on Mojave was any significant.

Please note that macOS 10.16 == macOS 11 and that most of these tools don't seem to recognize Big Sur and later from Catalina.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=mac

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/944559/worldwide-macos-v...

[diebeforei485]

So, roughly 70% are running Catalina or later.

This is pretty good. Macbooks do usually get software updates for many years - as do iPhones and iPads of late.

People who bought early Apple Watches (some of which were very expensive!) didn't get updates past watchOS 4 however, which was sad to see.

[timeon]

This was exactly my case especially with the Adobe. Then my MBP died just few days before deadline. So I got new one with M1 chip. And I had to go with Adobe subscription. Not only it was bloatware it was also buggy. Then Affinity had sale and I bought three Affinity apps for the price of three months with Adobe. Affinity Designer is better for my needs then combination of Photoshop/Illustrator. However Adobe Indesign is still much better then Affinity publisher. I could live with that but there is not good compatibility between Indesign and Publisher (unlike Affinity Designer where you can easily import/export .psd). But I will have to find workaround not because subscription sucks (I do not use Indesign daily but still almost every month). It sucks because Creative Cloud is bloatware.

[ungamed]

The subscription still sucks.

[ChuckNorris89]

Welcome to the world of big-tech commercial software. You either pay a subscription fee in money or your private information for ad targeting. Sometimes even both.

[ungamed]

Not all big-tech commercial software is like this, but maybe I'm not a regular user.

[sneak]

There is a third option:

keygen + little snitch blocking

[KptMarchewa]

>I'm sure Apple know exactly how many people they inconvenience at any given point, and make a calculated decision about support.

Each Apple laptop gets upgrades to newest for roughly 6-7 years.