App Store "Updates" looks very wrong

@steve626, what leads you to "belief". Is there a statement from Apple to say that the behaviour is expected? Or is it from your personal experience?

Evidently @BDAqua concurs with you, however @ChrisPixelZoom says he spoke with Tier 1 and Tier 2 Apple support with neither of them suggesting that the behaviour was normal for unsupported versions.

I have a 2008 iMac that has great nostalgic value to me (plus it has a built in DVD burner which is kind of convenient at times) but it is maxed out at El Capitan and as time goes by, more and more things require workarounds because browsers, web pages, apps don't run properly. This is clearly starting to happen with High Sierra, which is the highest MacOS for machines which are 10 years old or more. I have one of those also, a MacBook Air 2010, on High Sierra, a beautiful machine that, like the iMac, is very snappy with an internal SSD. But I had to buy a new machine because neither of the older Macs can run the tax software I needed this year.

I’m in the same boat—not so much because of hardware but because of software: I need to be able to run Abobe CS6. Not nay is my App Store messed up, but I am also noticing these other problems that developed about the same time (about a month ago):

—Copy/Paste commands no longer work in iTunes, Safari, Firefox, or between those three apps (weirdly it still works in chrome)

—Finder no longer provides thumbnails for even the most basic files, and cannot figure out how to open them (mp3 files no longer open automatically in iTunes, jpgs no longer default to Preview)

—GarageBand projects now save as folders that GarageBand cannot open.

I feel like there is a connection between these problems that I just can’t see, involving file-organization and inter-operability. Most apps seem to work fine, if you overlook the copy/paste problem. I’m not a conspiracy-minded guy, and I have been a Mac user since 1987, but this all seems pretty fishy to me.

I Just Got An Early 2015 MacBook Air, And I Believe This Problem Is Effecting My OS Updater, I've got Mac OS 10.12 Sierra and everytime I get the notification to update to Catalina it does nothing and the options to update literally isn't there, and same way with my Late 2011 iMac Running Max OS 10.13.6 High Sierra The store looks broken like this on both my Mac's, how can this problem be out for so long and not to be addressed by Apple months ago?

why is it that it's been a few months and the problem is still present in 2021 (Jun 21st) it won't let me update to Catalina because of this problem and I have way too many app incapabilities due to this problem if there's a way around this problem please reply! Anyone

Apple is well aware of this issue. It is how Apple WANTS it. Planned obsolescence is a source of revenue because it forces the consumer to purchase new hardware. Apple wants your money, not your happiness.

It is not a server problem, it is a greed problem. Apple wants our older hardware to become obsolete so that we are forced to buy new hardware. There is no "pushing up" or "prioritizing" that which Apple is well aware of and has designed to occur. Over time, you will find that more and more functions no longer function.

What exactly looks wrong about it?

Here's mine in 10.13.6---

Same here, in Italy. MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)

That's true. I've seen this issue on both El Capitan and High Sierra.

A lot of people did encounter it.

See link.

Here are all the discussions I’ve found about it (forget the last one in my pic, not related).

Two or three threads on the French Apple communities too...

Go figure, ask the engineers at Apple ;)

Did you experience any security issues with your Apple ID? having to change your password etc.

Yes, but do you think they care?

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