Bassistclem Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 In a seemingly suicidal attempt to loose business, dropbox has decided to stop supporting apple users who still operate older operating systems, or pre intel mac users as we're know. Most musicians, video makers and photographers I deal with in the business still work on the older macs, we're not [b][i]all[/i][/b] rich you know, and many use dropbox for file sharing whilst collaborating on projects. I'm not sure if this a subversive attempt by apple to make us all go and buy shiny new computers or is it just dropbox naively shooting themselves in the foot? There are other options after all... Wondered how many of you out there have been recently excommunicated? Also interested to see which service you trust spread your doings around the globe? Clem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbo Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Copy.com is excellent. Loads of free storage and you can get more by recommending friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) It's not really suicide because the alternative is iCloud which AFAIK isn't supported either. It's a legacy system and developers have to make business descisions on how much they spend on supporting obselete systems. You should be able to pick up a very cheap second hand machine. . Edited May 19, 2015 by TimR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Ben Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Google drive can be handy, but storage i think is only 15gb which depending what you use could get full up quickly! I use both systems though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassistclem Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 [quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1432020724' post='2777233'] Copy.com is excellent. Loads of free storage and you can get more by recommending friends. [/quote] Cheers I'll check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassistclem Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) [quote name='TimR' timestamp='1432020779' post='2777234'] It's not really suicide because the alternative is iCloud which AFAIK isn't supported either. It's a legacy system and developers have to make business descisions on how much they spend on supporting obselete systems. You should be able to pick up a very cheap second hand machine. . [/quote] Cheers Tim, but it's a question of what is obsolete I suppose. My "old" G5 works perfectly well and don't feel the need to feed the big fat cats at Apple quite yet. The point is that there are many in the same position, more than the lines of dropbox may have realised. Edited May 19, 2015 by Bassistclem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 [quote name='Bassistclem' timestamp='1432030808' post='2777351'] Cheers Tim, but it's a question of what is obsolete I suppose. My "old" G5 works perfectly well and don't feel the need to feed the big fat cats at Apple quite yet. The point is that there are many in the same position, more than the lines of dropbox may have realised. [/quote] Something is obselete if the makers stop making it. That's the definition. You don't have to feed the fat cats. There are plenty of people already doing that. Second hand is cheap as chips. Especially if you go for minimum spec that'll be better than what you're running at the moment. The world moves on and improves. If you want your business to remain competitive you have to move on and improve as well. Sure your Mac works fine and does what it says on the tin. BUT if it fails you won't be able to replace it like for like and you run the risk of not being able to do any work while you replace and upgrade. The better path is to upgrade now while you still have a working system in place and manage the switch over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Old Macs are great, it's one of the Macintosh strengths that the older hardware still keeps going. But unless you run in a completely closed system you are bound to run into limitations eventually. It's 9 years since Apple last made a PPC machine. I don't think it is unreasonable for on-line services to stop supporting what in the computer world is ancient hardware. As others have said you can pick up a second hand Intel Mac for very little money, and even the lowest spec model will out perform your current hardware without any question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 [quote name='Bassistclem' timestamp='1431990613' post='2777129'] In a seemingly suicidal attempt to loose business, dropbox has decided to stop supporting apple users who still operate older operating systems, or pre intel mac users as we're know. ...is it just dropbox naively shooting themselves in the foot? There are other options after all... [/quote] Suicidal? Shooting themselves in the foot? I realise this is irritating for you but pre-Intel Macs are probably less than 0.5% of their clientbase. Even Apple have dropped support for hardware that old. There have been five major versions of OSX since then. http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=Mac+OS+X+10.5&qpcustomb=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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