> This, sadly, is an inherent side effect of progress as Apple moves ahead and continues what it started in Mac OS X Lion, in bringing OS X closer to iOS. This

> This, sadly, is an inherent side effect of progress as Apple moves ahead and continues what it started in Mac OS X Lion, in bringing OS X closer to iOS. This is a lot of what is wrong with the press about Apple. 1. It has nothing to do with moving to iOS. Same for many changes that annoy people on Lion. My pet peeve are the monochrome sidebar icons in Finder, iTunes, etc., which offer less clues for the eyes - say what you want, but they have nothing to do with iOS. The only parallel on iOS is 'Settings' and it uses colorful icons. Blaming it on an unavoidable convergence with iOS is a lazy way to avoid any debate. 2. Unless there is anything wrong with the actual hardware, this is not 'for progress' but just planned obscolescence as usual. Apple has zero financial incentive to support old devices. I don't blame them for that, it seems like they are legitimally trying to make money off software, but right now they're a hardware company. The companies that actually strive for software market penetration/hardware conservation like Microsoft or Google (with Android or Chromebooks) have the incentive to run on everything at the latest version, but it doesn't work out either. I wish gov'ts would enforce a longer warranty on devices and even their vendor support for security fixes. Throwing away perfectly fine machines hurts...