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When the next version of macOS comes out and whether it will bring significant breaking changes is not within their control though.

• msh 9y ago
  Well they know a new one comes out every year so they would have to be willfully ignorant to not know that and that it have a chance of breaking behavior. If they want to charge for new versions it would only be fair if they at sales time gave a time range for how long they were going to support current versions.
  • achamayou 9y ago
    Some releases are much more substantial than others though. Apple may even deprecate functionality they depend on without a suitable replacement. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that the customer is given the choice to pay for the upgrade or not, rather than build in the insurance cost all the time.
    • msh 9y ago
      I think the programmer is much better equipped to make a informed choice about this than the customer.