Say what you will of Apple, but the fact that their Remote Desktop Admin application can connect from a OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC laptop to another MacBook running Catalina (x86) or Sonoma (arm64), is an amazing feat.
I wish companies would preserve compatibility with older software, despite of the “muah security” freakazoids: good, older hardware is never obsoleted by crap, newer hardware. Browsing shit websites, cultivating parasocial relations with Youtubers and VTubers, farming pretty color skins in games, listening to propaganda podcasts, is not a good experience, regardless if you’re doing it on your $10 yard-sale PowerBook or a $5k all-pimped-out MacBook Pro.
Apple’s stance on compatibility is one of the reasons that’s pushing me away from the Linux ecosystem into Apple’s. And I still hate current Apple hardware and human brains cannot comprehend how much I loathe every macOS after Mojave.
But truth be told, Apple was a great hardware-maker back in the day.
