unixes wrote:
Seems iOS 9.2.1 needs iTunes 12.3 or later. iTunes 12.3 needs OSX 10.8.5 or later. I have a MacBook white OSX 10.7.5 and cannot be upgraded to a newer OSX. So i am stucked with this or forced to buy a new Mac (more than 1000€). It's silly but not surprising coming from Apple, after the famous error 53 which make your iPhone a brick if you "dare" to change the screen/home button into a non Apple service. So i searched for another option an i found a software which works pretty well, an iTunes substitute named iMazing. For now works perfectly.
Error -53 is about security. If the finger print reader does not properly sync up with the secure enclave, then it is possible someone is trying to break into the iPhone using a hacked finger print reader. The iPhone has no way to tell. Now I will agree bricking the phone is a little excessive, however, if Apple did the finger printer reader change and it bricks the iPhone, they will provide a replacement iPhone. Will the 3rd party repairer do that? And how many tries do you want to give the hacker to play with the Finger printer reader until they manage to get it right and break into your iPhone? And how often does the home button fail, out of 3 quarter of a billion iPhones sold? Is this a huge problem?
As for iTunes. To be stopped at Lion, you have to have a system that is around 8 or 10 years old (I have 2 such systems, a Mac mini and an white polycarbonite Macbook). According to the Web, these are the Macs that stop at Lion:
- iMac (Late 2006 or Early 2007)
- MacBook (Late 2006 or any 2007 or 2008 model)
- MacBook Air (all models) - this cannot be true, as my Wife is running El Capitan on a 2010 Macbook Air. They must meed the original Air.
- MacBook Pro (Late 2006)
- Mac mini (Mid 2007)
- Mac Pro (all models) - this cannot be true, as the circular Mac Pro will run El Capitan, and I suspect some of the more recent tower Mac Pros will as well. But I can see models from the same time frame as the other Macs listed here being limited.
- Xserve (Late 2006 or Early 2008)
So while it would be nice if Apple did not stop making iTunes compatible with operating system releases for Snow Leopard and Lion, it is not like they did it to Macs from last year.
PS. If unixes implies you are a Unix user, you could always load up Linux on the older Mac and using it for other purposes, and get even more life out of it (this does assume you do get a newer Mac).
