[kennend3]

> A lot of it was insufferable idolatry and ideological pontification - but I started to understand, if not necessarily agree with, the product lifecycle in Apple.

I have an iPhone and iPad as well as a hackintosh.

I will never for the life of me understand the apple ideology. It is almost like some of these people's whole identify is tied to a company they neither own or work for?

Sure apple does make some great stuff, but they also make crap and have a history of bad choices (dock, firewire and lightening come to mind).

what i have a serious issue with is the artificial limits on OS updates. Clearly if Opencore legacy patcher gets the OS on the laptop apple intentionally blocked it?

Many who have used Opencore are happy with the experience so why exactly did MacOS refuse to install?

[leviathant]

It's funny you mention Firewire. Up until last year, I was using a Firewire audio device with my Win10 machine - it was released in 2007, and the last driver update was in 2012. Even though official support had dropped a decade ago, it still worked. Because of the architecture of Firewire vs USB, if you wanted a lot of high speed I/O, Firewire was the way to go - as long as you weren't running a Mac. While researching the Mac Studio and its M1 processor, I read some rather pathetic stories of using a series of dongles - Firewire -> USB -> Thunderbolt (or some such chain), and some hackery to get old drivers installed.

I decided I'm in a comfortable enough place now that I can upgrade to a modern interface... without getting too into the weeds, I replaced an outboard mixer and two Firewire interfaces with a smaller, higher quality analog hybrid device that runs USB-C. And funnily enough, I've nearly recouped the cost of the purchase by selling my old gear.

Hanging on to old equipment just does not fit the Apple model. Trade in early, trade in often, or get stuck on old architecture, and get phased out of the upgrade path. I've got a 2015 Macbook Pro I should have traded in the moment I heard about the M1 processor. It was the vintage to have, and now I'd be lucky if I got $400 for it.

Anyway... there is a large portion of the human population that seeks out and worships idols. It's like any rational part of their brain decides that with THIS person, they can relax things like curiosity or critique. If I keep typing about the topic, I'm going to start saying unpleasant things that will no doubt upset people, so I'll just leave it at that.