All true, BobHg7.
From another old I mean “longtime” IT guy.

There is a perception here that supporting older machines and operating systems is merely a matter of choice. It is not. Newer machines with increased processing power and features enable application software to do things that were impractical or impossible on older systems. Sometimes applications have to be re-written to run under the newer environments, making them incompatible with older machines.

There comes a point, then, in order to support older environments, there needs to be two versions of the application. As this process continues, it becomes three, etc. This means that development and all the other efforts must be split among the existing team. This means either fewer people on each team or hiring more people. Not just hiring people, but hiring people well versed in older technology who are not only dwindling, but getting older and wanting more than the entry-level pay offered.

And they’d be doing all this for a rapidly decreasing market that will eventually disappear. Does that make any business sense? No. The “progress” you are complaining about is what has allowed us to do things today we could not have dreamed of years ago.

This is a business whose point is to make a profit. How long should any software company support older technology? I still have a machine running XP. Should I expect support for all the new applications on that platform? Of course not. Some applications simply could not do what they do on older machines because of new functionality.

I’ve been an IT guy since CP/M was the standard operating system. In one move IBM wiped out my investment in those systems and the s-100 hardware it ran on. This is the nature of the business.

You’ll find that even Skylum will have to abandon support for your system eventually.

Hi Dave, I fully agree with you over this but I got around the issue by flashing my Mac Pro 4,1 to a 5,1. Doing this allows you to install OSSierra and hence the newly updated Lightroom and Photoshop versions.

Thanx Rob. Works in portrait mode.

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You’d only have that depth information in your iPhone images if you were using the camera in a mode that engaged both lenses. Try the Depth mode in the Lightroom CC app on your phone.