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I just read that Apple is discontinuing support for Macs made in 2008 and 2009. I just bought a new iMac last April, which – after getting it home and setting it up – I discovered was a late-2013 model. I’m happy with my purchase, but what will happen in 2023 or later? I bought the iMac because my early-2007 Mac Pro couldn’t be upgraded past OS X 10.6.8. I know computers can become obsolete very quickly, but when you spend money on the best, you kind of expect it to stay viable a bit longer. ED ERCOLE Apple generally considers Macs to be obsolete once they pass the sevenyear mark, which means they discontinue hardware support and stop producing replacement parts. That doesn’t make repair impossible by a third-party firm, but it can certainly make it difficult. Is seven years too soon? I think it might be, considering the premium price we pay for Apple products. What do you think, readers?
The finer points of fullscreen mail Your article “OS X El Capitan: hidden features” was very useful. However, the section “Messaging with Mail” requires a little further clarification… You can’t get a message to go fullscreen if Mail itself is fullscreen — the green button in individual messages is grayed out. If Mail is opened as a window, then messages will be able go fullscreen and Split View can be enabled. Conversely, if Mail is opened in a window, then minimizing a message sends it to the Dock. If Mail is fullscreen, then minimizing a message does drop it down to the bottom of the screen. PETER BOWDEN If Mail itself is fullscreen, a message won’t go fullscreen.
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Comparing clouds To add to your iCloud article in the January 2016 (#110) issue, there is one crucial aspect of iCloud that people need to understand: iCloud is very different to services like Dropbox. When using iCloud, files are stored solely on a server somewhere. With Dropbox, files are stored on your computer, uploaded to the cloud, then downloaded to other computers connected to your account. Why is this distinction important? When the internet connection goes down or there’s a Wi-Fi issue, people on iCloud can’t access their files. I need access to my stuff at all times, even during our upcoming El Niño storms this spring. On a side note, I tried box.com but it’s way too cumbersome to get started with. OneDrive is okay but can be slow at times, and I’m concerned about Microsoft scanning
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my files and judging what can be stored on their servers. Dropbox seems to be the ideal package for me. ERIC P. WILSON And thanks for the cloud comparisons, Eric!
The unseen apps I’ve noticed that almost all the iOS apps you showcase belong to the productivity, creative, or gaming categories, and are almost exclusively consumer focused. But as iPads have become increasingly common, there has been a rise in apps that the typical iOS user doesn’t see. I’ve noticed waitpeople in restaurants take orders on iPads using an app that seems to be part of a larger restaurant-management system. The place that services my car also uses some kind of non-consumer app, and then there are app-based systems for professional offices and lab data collection. I think it would be interesting to spotlight some of these. (Well, it’d be interesting to me, anyway.) JEFF MARK Good idea, Jeff! As you say, most consumers won’t come into contact with these apps, but they’re silently shaping the world around us. We’ll be sure to give it some thought.
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Mac users have have always felt rather well insulated from the malware that has so blighted PC users over the years, but a report from the security sages at Symantec suggests that may be changing. The firm points to a number of recent Apple security breaches – such as the XcodeGhost debacle of September 2015, where a malicious version of Apple’s development tool Xcode was released on a torrent site, infecting apps created with it – as evidence that Mac and iOS threats are on the rise. It quoted a recent study that found that the number of OS X malware samples detected in 2015 was five times greater than the previous five years combined. “Should Apple continue to grow in popularity, it seems likely that these trends will continue,” said report author Dick O’Brien. Elsewhere, the report suggests that the growing popularity of Apple products may spur on the malware authors. However, O’Brien also pointed out that “the number of threats targeting Apple operating systems
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