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End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Why pull support and remove functionality? Why not just drop support -- just stop updating the app but still allow basic functionality? There are still a lot of legacy machines that are still in use ...
This is really quite comical. Those using the newest Macs are most likely not using them for important tasks, so DropBox caters to that audience. Meanwhile, those using their Macs for serious work (video editing, graphic design, photo-editing, etc...) are thrown out of the loop. How do I know this? Logic. We professionals have a fortune invested in software, peripherals, and the very expensive PPC workstations that just ten years ago were "state of the art". As the owner of a video production company, I purchased several turnkey video editing workstations, and software costing as much as a new car.
In 2003, Apple's Steve Jobs had this to say: "The PowerPC G5 changes all the rules. This 64-bit race car is the heart of our new Power Mac G5, now the world's fastest desktop computer". Two years later, Apple kills the PowerPc, and Intel Macs were born; support for our favorite apps fell like dominoes. But we remained loyal, purchasing updates, fixing our machines, and adding storage. In turn, the companies to which our loyalties were directed, apologized, told us to buy new computers, and not only dropped support but crippled their own apps residing on our computers (DropBox included). Nice...very nice!
And now, in response to another poster, the DropBox system requirements on the Windows side are:
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1
For those with no knowledge of Windows XP, it was released 14 years ago in 2001. Explain THAT one, DropBox.
