All of these applications are perfectly usable, with their own set of strengths and weaknesses. It’s the opposite with DxO: perfectly usable hardware may need upgrading to be able to run a macOS that PL supports, so for me the current/obvious solution is just to use C1 and Exposure instead. Admittedly not as comparable as C1 and Exposure in function, but you don’t hear many people complaining about Serif’s macOS support since by the time you run into that you almost surely want new/need hardware anyway. Or take a look at Affinity Photo, that still supports an 8 year old OS X release. I would just say look at what DxO’s competitors are doing, as I explained here. Most companies that I worked with who did this kind of application only were willing to support 2 or perhaps 3 OS releases back due to the increasing difficulty of supporting OS’s further back than that. How far back an OS would you like PhotoLab to support? I ask because before I retired I spent years working as a software engineer/architect and ran into these questions over and over again. This poses a problem for you AND for DXO. This is what Apple have been doing for years now. Long story short: If you don’t like Apple dropping support for “oldish” hardware – don’t buy Apple. Despite the massive investment this must mean for their operations compared to the Windows version. And I am thankful that they still keep delivering for macOS. I guess it is much easier for DXO to keep a steady development line on Windows. Since it is Apple who have decided to deliver a “new” version of their OS every single frigging year – what do you expect a software company to do? End operations? Drop support for macOS? Companies that actually do the same thing – they drop support for older versions of macOS. And I guess they have much less manpower at hand than companies like Microsoft or Adobe do. I am pretty sure that the developers at DXO do their utmost to deliver a properly functioning piece of software. Thing is: You are addressing the wrong people. I am posting this because I read a lot of complaints that DXO drops support for older macOS versions.
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