Apple betrays its Snow Leopard users

Stefan Mileschin · 3rd March 2014, 07:08

The Fruity Cargo Cult known as Apple is putting pressure on those who still use its Snow Leopard operating system to carry out an expensive upgrade, by cutting support.

Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system.

Yesterday Apple issued an update for OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7) but nothing for Snow Leopard.

The tame Apple press points out that Apple provided Snow Leopard security updates for slightly more than four years and so users have no real excuse not to upgrade. But it is not as if Apple has actually told users that it wants them to upgrade.

Snow Leopard was also ignored in December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.10, the most-current Apple browser for the OS.

http://news.techeye.net/software/app...-leopard-users

3rd March 2014, 07:08	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,553	Apple betrays its Snow Leopard users The Fruity Cargo Cult known as Apple is putting pressure on those who still use its Snow Leopard operating system to carry out an expensive upgrade, by cutting support. Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system. Yesterday Apple issued an update for OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7) but nothing for Snow Leopard. The tame Apple press points out that Apple provided Snow Leopard security updates for slightly more than four years and so users have no real excuse not to upgrade. But it is not as if Apple has actually told users that it wants them to upgrade. Snow Leopard was also ignored in December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.10, the most-current Apple browser for the OS. http://news.techeye.net/software/app...-leopard-users

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