Apple Has Won

Apple has won.  Apparently, it is no longer possible NOT to upgrade their programs.  I've read enough sites that say they have given up trying to revert to previous Mac OS systems.  I've sure been trying and I can't find even deceitful ways to revert.

I have an older Mac mini that has one of those older versions, and I am NOT putting it online!  From my experience this month and from what I've read online, even if you specifically order the Apple system preferences NOT to update, they detect old versions and do anyway.

They examine your Mac computer whenever it is online and force the updates. even if you choose NOT to.

I don't know how to get around it.  Not that I'm a Apple tech, but when the sites that seem to specialize in "how to" can't, what hope do *I* have?  Persistence has lost.

I will explore Linux, but I doubt I have the skills required to set up programs and email and security that isn't built in.  I can work REALLY hard at some things, but there are limits.

And I will set up the newish Windows PC I bought last year just to play some old games (and discovered I couldn't, and then discovered I couldn't make sense of the way Windows works these days.  Maybe I can used to that again.

But it seems that the days of forced upgrades and annual program subscriptions are upon us forever.  I hate that.  I was perfectly satisfied with old versions of most programs.  But of course, that doesn't provide revenue to Apple or Windows.  

So, for now, I am going to go along (kicking and screaming) into the future of the annual subscription universe.  I see little choice other than to go offline, and I'm not ready to do that.  10 years and a few months, maybe.  Not today...

I'll subscribe to "MS Word and Excel on Mac ", to basic Mac Apps, to forced upgrades.

But I am SO UTTERLY PISSED!

There may be a user revolution coming.  I've often wondered what gives Microsoft or Apple the right to invade my owned hardware  and implant cookies and now lately whole programs into my hardware that I bought?

But that is for the future.  I can give in for now to stay online and fight for future changes in the political world to make government return freedom to users...

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