Apple will have some problems in court hand waving about how there are uber super coupled when it has to do with the license but complete decoupled when it comes to support. MacOS is licensed coupled to the hardware. in the last cut off iteration if too close to a macOS roll out date. One moves around while the other doesn't which gets some slop. While the macOS roll out date is pretty much end of Sept - early October. ( so things get tossed onto the Vintage list at various times of the year. The 'end sales date' is effectively measured in months. The Obsolete policy is meausered in years. People trying flap their arms trying to find corner cases of x and y that got an update while on vintage. They often don't do them for some things on the Vintage list. Apple doesn't do macOS updates for things that are on the Obsolete list. There is much hand waving that this is "only hardware". Which means there is at least another five years ( 2024 ). The Vintage countdown didn't effectively start until November 2019. At end of sales lifetime (or very often end of manufacturing which lines up with end of sales) is when Apple starts backing away.įor the Mac Pro 2013 Apple was shooting themselves in the foot by leaving the product comatose for so long. The countdown clock is started when Apple stops selling it.
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