>> you have to purchase new hardware every 3 to 5 years > You really don’t. That's not my experience, it depends on how lucky you get. I still have a Core Du

>> you have to purchase new hardware every 3 to 5 years > You really don’t. That's not my experience, it depends on how lucky you get. I still have a Core Duo iMac and that one didn't last longer than 5 years. Anyway, it would be easier for me if Apple made compelling hardware, but none of the current offers appeal to me in any way. They don't even sell iMacs with mate screens, and let's not speak about the keyboards or lack of extensibility. I purchased an Amd 1800X machine with 32GB RAM and Geoforce 1080 together with a 42 inch monitor for peanuts. Why would I spend the same amount of money on an iMac with 8GB RAM, slower processor, and smaller, but very glary display? Surely Apple has their customer base and appealing products for many people. I'm just not one of them any longer. (I used to have an Aluminum Powerbook Pro G4 - that was some quality. But now? They even come with power cables that are too short!) >Just curious: what were the problems you faced? Deprecated Carbon dependencies, deprecated GUI calls in Cocoa, problems with high DPI displays, problems with Gatekeeper and signing, problems with 32bit->64bit transition. Basically, whenever a new MacOS version came out, I wasn't sure whether my app would continue running. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't, sometimes the GUI was messed up. To be fair, the real problem was more on the Hackintosh side: Every problem could eventually be fixed with a simple recompile. Unfortunately, every time I had to set up a new virtual machine with the new OS, make a new Hackintosh installation and try to get a new OS image, and as you might imagine these come with different hacks and different obscure instructions every time, especially when you run them in virtual machines. >you can distribute unsigned binaries That's what I do right now, but users will pester you with bug reports and you have to explain to them every time again how to manually open the application and allow Gatekeeper to run it. That's especially annoying if you believe, like I do, that Gatekeeper is fairly insecure and can be broken or circumvented by any skilled hacker anyway (as past bug reports have illustrated).