[runjake]

Evil is subjective.

1. Apple has been doing this for years and years. At this point, it shouldn't be a surprise.

2. It reduces legacy cruft. The alternative is you get to keep 20-30 year old legacy cruft, as with Windows. I'm not saying what Microsoft does is necessarily bad, just different.

3. The Intel laptops don't stop running[a] -- and if history is any indication, will still receive critical security patches.

4. At least the bonus here is that the lowest end Apple Silicon Mac almost entirely crushes the high end i9 MBP 16" it replaced -- for a fraction of the cost.

a. Unless it gets hit by one of a number of known quality issues (screen, keyboard, battery, etc).

[simplotek]

> It reduces legacy cruft.

What you chose to describe as "legacy cruft" is actually the luxury laptop people spent over $2K close 6 or 7 years ago.

> The alternative is you get to keep 20-30 year old legacy cruft, as with Windows.

It's not a choice between bricking perfectly good computers after 6 years or maintaining them for 30 years.

[runjake]

Apple is bricking perfectly good computers? As far as I know, they keep running with the last supported version of macOS.

And heck, Windows 11 doesn't really support pre-Coffee Lake CPUs without hacks similar to OpenCore's.

[simplotek]

> As far as I know, they keep running with the last supported version of macOS.

During the past 3 years I was forced to upgrade from Mojave to Big Sur to Monterrey, each and every single time because otherwise my 2019 MacBook pro would not be allowed in the network as it was running unsupported OSes.

No, they do not keep running with the last supported version. Having a successful boot sequence and seeing blinking lights is not the end goal of spending over $2k on a luxury computer.