On Mar 30, 2021, at 7:12 PM, Paul Londoner <paul.londo...@gmail.com<mailto:paul.londo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have done a lot of research into the Mac and its software. What I found out was that unless you have the latest macOS installed, then when you try to download apps from the Apple Appstore, you either can't download them or can't run them. This isn’t even remotely true. Yes there are apps that require Big sur, but when you log into the App store it knows what version of OS X you’re running. Compatibility to older versions of the OS is up to the app developers themselves. For Apple products, that is most likely to be limited to only the past two or three versions. I found out about this using a Toshiba Satellite Hackintosh with High Sierra installed. I even found out where the settings were that said which version of macOS was required. I think this was in the plist files. I changed these settings to match High Sierra, but these programs still didn't run. Changing the plist for the App will not change whether or not it runs in that OS. They’re not artificially limiting you to a set OS, the OS version in the plist file reflects the required support libraries in the OS. >From what I've heard, unless I was running the latest macOS Big Sur, I heard >about a job training course for designing a UI. It said that I must own a Mac >to do this and use particular software, but I can't remember the name of this >software at the moment. AFAIK, I was only able to download XCode, and Keynote >from the Apple App Store, because I'm running macOS Big Sur. Even If I was >running Catalina I may not have been allowed to download this software. The current compatibility for Xcode in the App store is listed as 10.15.4 Keynote only require 10.15 or later. If you run the App store App it tells you ‘it will run on this <model of mac>” if you click on that it switches to tell you the minimum version Older mac OS versions are freely available from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683 back to Yosemite 10.10 and 10.7 and 10.8 are available for purchase https://www.apple.com/shop/help/downloadable_software -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/35A7C019-8DCE-4956-9FEF-7E724FF3946A%40pharmacy.arizona.edu.
