![]() ![]() Those stats vary widely depending on who's collecting them but the gist is: there are likely a WHOLE lot more XP Dropbox users out there than those on OS X 10.4 Tiger and/or OS X 10.5 Leopard. All older OS X versions were lumped together under a 6% portion of the pie called "Other" which I presume included Linux. Mac OS X 10.10 was something like 3.5% and OS X 10.9 was a little under 2%. "On-the-surface" statistics may paint the picture: I saw one set of January 2015 numbers that showed Windows XP usage at 18+%. That stings of "double-standard" a little bit, especially considering the whole uproar last year of Microsoft officially ending support for XP. I haven't seen anything about support being dropped for Windows XP in the near term. I thank Dropbox for having supported OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard for as long as they have. Dropbox likely doesn't want new hires getting bogged down in old dead-end code. Support from Apple in the developer tools has long since dried up. ![]() On one hand, I completely understand the dilemma of diminishing returns in continuing to support the old OS versions. I wasn't going to say anything but that doesn't help anyone, so here goes. ![]()
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