iMac, mid 2011, Mojave obsolescence
Dear Apple,
I have a mid 2011 iMac upgraded with 16gb of 1333Mhz RAM, 4-core, 8-threads i7 processor and with an 500Gb SSD drive that works as a charm, nearly as well as my Macbook Pro with touch bar, and I'm absolutely disappointed that I cannot upgrade it to Mojave, being a highly capable machine that I mainly use at home.
Although I understand the Metal compromise you're taking, the lack of support for a very capable machine is extremely worrying because, even if you support the current OS for security updates, I am already even today experiencing lack of support for some iCloud synchronizations. This means that my machine will be in practice obsolete because and only because you as a company decided so. This limits my interest in acquiring further computers from Apple, and it's the first time such a thing comes to my mind. I have bought every new line of Mac computers since I switched from Windows PCs in early 2000s or so, but I really don't like being forced to trash a fast and capable machine that I only use occasionally, because if feels you're loosing interest in us as customers, and this bring the mentioned lack of enthusiasm for Apple products to my mind.
To be clear, I understand and appreciate the Metal integration you want in the OS, but this is not and shouldn't be your customer's problem. It would be certainly possible in principle to have a version of Mojave with the Metal integration and another one without it, I imagine. Therefore, my feeling is that you're forcing a capable product to be obsolete. And this makes me very disappointed.
