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Matthew S.'s avatar
Matthew S.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

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 ...
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anonymous's avatar
anonymous
11 years ago

I want to add my voice to against the decision to drop OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Because there is and never will be a newer PPC OSX version since Apple abandoned its loyal customers years ago, dropping those versions will leave all those systems without any sensible Dropbox support. Using the web client is not an alternative which can be taken seriously; its only purpose can be recovery of files after the support stopped.

I understand Dropbox sometimes has to break API's to move forward, but I think there will be people in the community who are willing to make the changes for you. This happened before with Mozilla Firefox which is now supported by the community as TenFourFox. The same could be done for Dropbox, but not when Dropbox is actively blocking the PPC versions. Please reconsider!

P.S, next time when sending an email please verify if the suggested recommendations make sense. Suggesting to move to OS X 10.6 to an OS X 10.4 user makes no sense since OS X 10.4 is PPC only and OS X 10.6 is Intel only and OS X 10.5.8 is the end of the line for any Power PC Mac. Suggesting OS X 10.6 looks like Dropbox did not do its homework when analyzing the impact of this change.

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