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		ucha on Oct 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered fo... It's definitely a great incentive for users to update their hardware. If you could still use iOS3 on your iPhone 3GS, it would be reasonably fast and responsive but because the upgrade to iOS6 is free, you go for it only to discover that it is now unusable. Same logic goes now for Macs.

krrrh on Oct 23, 2013 | [–]

Check out whited00r if you Have an old 3GS that you want to make snappy.

As for OSX, this update (like many in the past) has several features which rejuvenate older hardware. It does the opposite of what you claim.

shinratdr on Oct 22, 2013 | [–]

I think lack of app compatibility and broken websites would be a bigger incentive.

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