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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also free. Because macOS is free.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was sort of a trick question. To upgrade to Sequoia you need to buy a new Mac because the 2016 MacBook Pro doesn’t support it. The Mac is a license dongle to use MacOS until you’re required to buy a new dongle.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All operating system systems have hardware requirements. Just because you need to upgrade your system in order to get the latest operating system, doesn’t make the operating system any less free.

      Your hallucinating connections that aren’t there in assigning meaning whether there isn’t any just cause you refuse to admit the fact that macOS is free.

      Repeating the same absurd argument over and over doesn’t make it any more true.

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      • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Geez man we have 5 MacBooks, 5 iPhones, 3 Apple TVs, a few iPads and watches. Even a couple iPads still. Not a hater. But Apple makes their money off selling hardware, not the OS. That doesn’t make the OS “free”, because keeping old hardware updated conflicts with their business model. If you buy a Mac you get 6 years out of it and then it becomes unsupported. What everyone else is telling you is that MacOS isn’t free, it’s prepaid, as part of the hardware purchase. Hope that helps.

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