Will Apple be updating iTunes for OSX 10.6.8?

My point was that I did not really get your point in posting the link. Now that you have explained it, thanks.

One can argue the technical and moral issues till the cows come home, but as ancient person points out, Apple's write up on ios 9 says it needs snow leopard or later. that is the service agreement/relationship between apple and it's end user - not honouring that is a breach of contract.

😉

Cheers. Sorry if I sounded grumpy towards you.

Pete

MisterQ wrote:

One can argue the technical and moral issues till the cows come home, but as ancient person points out, Apple's write up on ios 9 says it needs snow leopard or later. that is the service agreement/relationship between apple and it's end user - not honouring that is a breach of contract.

Tell Apple

Nothing we can do for you here in these user to user forums.

Pete

Stop trolling and look for help here Apple

Pete

ancient person wrote:

Pete: "Can you get analogue stations on any TV set?"

No. But broadcasters/governments spent ages, years even, warning people they wouldn't be able to.

So a bit different mayhap?

Not really. I never received a warning. Luckily I was sensible enough to keep track of technology that may effect my vital data. 😉

Pete

It's the problem with the ecosystems like iTunes (that I hate): I can still add pictures and music on my Sony-Ericsson K750 with a MacBook that runs Leopard (if I want), but I can't do it on my last generation 400 USD iPod Touch 128 GB, only because my iMac runs Lion...

Tevseric wrote:

It's the problem with the ecosystems like iTunes (that I hate): I can still add pictures and music on my Sony-Ericsson K750 with a MacBook that runs Leopard (if I want), but I can't do it on my last generation 400 USD iPod Touch 128 GB, only because my iMac runs Lion...

Ahh..yes. That makes sense. Bad luck.

Pete

ancient person wrote:

iTunes 11.4 - the "latest" version available to run on Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.8 - will offer an update for an iOS device to upgrade it to iOS9. It doesn't say, should you upgrade the device, you will never be able to communicate with it again via iTunes 11.4. They are incompatible. There are quite a few posts about it.

Now Apple's online manual for iOS9, very recently published, clearly states that you only need "OS X version 10.6.8 or later" which is wrong:

https://help.apple.com/iphone/9/#/iph3bf4317b

I, like many others, have specific reasons for sticking with Snow Leopard - ProTools, Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Fireworks and other PPC stuff all need Rosetta. So it seems I have two options. Either I flog the iOS device and buy an Android one which I can communicate with, or I buy a cheap Windows machine to run iTunes. Neither option is satisfactory.

So I would like an Apple person to reply to this post stating whether Apple intends to make a newer, compatible version of iTunes available for Snow Leopard. And if so how soon. I don't think it's acceptable to remove all communication between two Apple devices without warning and without a suitable solution available such as a roll back to iOS8.

ancient person wrote:

And - despite my post - I also have dual boot on my A1342 polycarbonate Macbook for Snow Leopard and Mavericks (I don't get on with Yosemite).

So in reality I can connect an iPhone 6 (not bought - broken and passed on by a nephew) to almost everything except the Hackintosh and the Macbook running SL.

If you can dual boot into Mavericks and solve your iTunes problem there, other than the rant, what is the point of your OP?

I do not work with Dreamweaver and/or Fireworks, but are you really developing websites for 2015 with tools that were designed for the web of the 90s?

ProTools - an update is available

Other PPC stuff [that] needs Rosetta: like what?

ancient person wrote:

The point was the rant. It has got convoluted in the discussion. The OS and what is done with it is irrelevant.

A piece of software (iTunes in this case) shouldn't offer an update for a device, apply the update, and then inform you it can no longer connect to the device because of the update which it has just applied. That is just bad. There are no excuses for it.

Then tell Apple. You are treading water here and will shortly drown.

Cheers

Pete