[Swoerd123]

In my own experience, I have noticed that Apple's software 'breaks' more on older hardware, be that Mac's, iPhones or iPads. For all the credit apple gets for supporting older devices, those devices are definitely not treated as first class citizens. For example, the touch keyboard on my (work) iPhone 12 Pro works decidedly worse than on my (private) iPhone 16 Pro. The error rate is much worse, and I believe it's due to the amount of useless features that get added with each new installment of iOS.

Whether that's intentional or not (I believe it is), Apple should focus more on delivering a stable experience, on both new and old devices.

I echo the sentiment a lot of people have already expressed. That is, using Apple products is like being a junkie. You need to use their products because there is no real alternative, but you feel kind of dirty because of their practices.To me, that sounds like it should be a huge red flag for Apple execs.

[mentalgear]

Adding my comment as reply as well as it is relevant:

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I've been holding over and running 10.5 on my iMac 2019, but then in the beginning of the year had to upgrade to Sequoia (due to software dependencies).

Of course this is just a correlation, not necessary a causation, but within a month the iMac's internal SSD was corrupted to the point that it was unrecoverable, and my 40GB RAM corrupted.

So, yeah, at the very least not sure how much testing went into Sequoia for non Mac Silicon macs.

Quite disappointing considering how long a normal Mac's lifetime used to be, which also justified its high initial hardware price.

[MikeRichardson]

The RAM got corrupted?