I find it revealing that this is appearing in such a mainstream, non-techie venue. It would also be nice if in the installer did a sweep of the applications folder and listed which applications are incompatible, then gave users the option to update, rather than updating, then leaving a shit surprise. To my knowledge that's not how the installer works right now.
Agreed. The opposite triggers are in place - if you try to install something from a dmg and it won't run on your older version of OSX, it puts a "No Smoking" style circle and slash across the install icon and won't let you run it. Included is a little warning that the install is meant for a minimum OS version that isn't met on the particular system.
Funny that they wouldn't do that the other way around for updates of the OS itself, to ensure the stability of all you have built up on it. It doesn't always "just work" in that sense.
I haven't updated OSX major version in so many years it isn't funny, because I got fed up with Logic constantly breaking every time. Unless there is a pressing need to update either, my Mac Pro is staying exactly at the stable versions it has been for what Apple clearly thinks is much too long.
EDIT: Small bit of history most people probably didn't notice: When Apple bought Logic, they killed the Windows version. That was okay, since the file formats were compatible. But then the first upgrade after that completely killed the Windows compatibility, and they (for whatever reason) never thought it important enough to provide a converter.
So many musicians were left with tracks that they had to completely re-arrange from the raw tracks, or re-record in order to continue working with older projects. And either way, you lost everything relating to MIDI in that process. It was seriously pathetic and unprofessional of them.
That's the crux that stopped me from doing major updates unless I KNOW everything will keep working, and there is something in it that is of interest to me (I don't care about interface "art" like whether the buttons are 3D or flat, etc... that's not enough to risk losing all my work.)
