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"In order to find out one's UDID, one has to connect an iPhone or iPad to a MacBook with a USB cable and open the iTunes app; copy the UDID; paste it into a message to the developer; and the developer then has to actually integrate it into the app package. That's obviously not an option for large-scale distribution," Mueller wrote in a blog post.

I love how these companies cry about how this is about free expression when it’s completely about their bottom lines.

Also, what person or company is unaware that parents want to be able to control what and how their kids get information and content? And more to the point, that Apple tries to tread a fine line between family friendly and creative expression — a notoriously difficult task, if the social networks are to believed (researchers say otherwise, but hey …).

Also funny how uneven enforcement on social networks/other companies barely makes the news cycle, despite copious evidence of predatory behavior and criticism from experts. But slap “Apple” in there as a boogie-person and it’s major news. 

JosephAU said:

So if I want to use any of these OSs? Parallels seems to have lost what it made it great and lost me as a customer. I have lots of old files that only run on old software. Looks like I have to keep an old intel mac too. Very disappointed.

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Intel processors):

• Windows 10 (recommended)
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows Server 2019

• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows 7 (SP0-SP1)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP0-SP2)
• Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise (SP0-SP2)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP0-SP2)
• Windows XP (SP0-SP3)
• Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• Windows 2000 Server SP4
• Boot2Docker
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8,7 and 6
• CentOS Linux 8, 7, 6
• Fedora Linux 33, 32, 31
• Ubuntu 20.10, 20.04, 19.04, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
• Debian GNU/Linux 10, 9
• Suse Linux Enterprise 15
• OpenSUSE Linux 15.2, 15.1, 15
• Linux Mint 20, 19, 18
• Kali 2020.2, 2019, 2018
• Elementary OS 5
• Manjaro 18
• Mageia 7
• Gentoo Linux **
• Solaris 11, 10 **
• openBSD 6 **
• FreeBSD 12, 11 **
• openVZ 7
• eComStation 2, 1.2 **
• ReactOS 0.4 **
• Android OS *
• macOS Big Sur 11.0 
• macOS Catalina 10.15
• macOS Mojave 10.14.x
• macOS High Sierra 10.13.x
• macOS Sierra 10.12.x
• OS X El Capitan 10.11.x
• OS X Yosemite 10.10.x
• OS X Mavericks 10.9.x
• OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x
• OS X Lion 10.7.x
• OS X Lion Server 10.7.x
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x
• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
• and many more...

Still using solid rubber tires or wagon wheels on your car, too? But seriously, I have 'old files' going back to the '80s, possibly the '70s. Nothing keeps me from using them or updating them.

Instead of posting a dubious laundry list of OSes (many of which are no longer supported by their vendors, so I fail to see how this is Parallels problem), maybe you should post the ones that are critical to you and see if anyone will help you? Otherwise, this is whole post is basically FUD. Any time something is still useful, folks find a way to update or emulate so that it still runs, regardless of architecture changes. If that weren't the case, hardware would never change (or it would be saddled with business destroying legacy cruft ... cough ... cough ...).

hodar said:

So, basically Parallels remains a waste of money for anyone who bought an M1 Mac.

Rehash MY user case; which is probably a significant number of user cases.  Why did I buy Parallels?  Why pay $$ for this program?

So, I can have the CAPABILITY to boot, and run WindowsXP, Windows 7 and Windows10 disk images, and either run programs on my Mac that are not available outside of the Windows environment, so I can play old games I purchased before I switched to the Apple ecosystem, and so I can play more games (emulation mode, which is surprisingly good) on my Mac, and play online with my friends who use PC games.  Open Parallels, run any version of Windows I chose, launch Steam and play online games with my friends (games that are not available on the Mac.

For work, Excel on Windows has the capability to allow me to write scripts in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); for reasons I don not understand, these advanced libraries are simply not available for the Mac community.  So, while my Excel workbooks have ~60,000 lines of VBA to allow it to link into the corporate database and dateline quality assessment info, I cannot do the same thing with my MSFT Office license for Mac.  So, I have 2 different licenses.

Now, I have no choice but have multiple computers at home.  Because programs that USED TO work flawlessly, no longer function at all.

"Because programs that USED TO work flawlessly..." that's clearly a gross exaggeration and kinda makes the rest of your statement questionable. Especially when mentioning WinXP.

So here's a thing ... just a guess ... but I imagine Parallels will be supporting their Intel version for quite awhile yet. And Apple isn't done releasing Intel based Macs. And I'm pretty sure that your current machine probably still has quite a bit of life left in it. Long enough that Microsoft might actually get it's act together and produce a fully capable ARM version of Windows, seeing as how they've had plenty of time to do that...

As for the Excel scripts, there could be any number of issues here. But seeing as how your company standardized on products from a company that's been openly hostile interoperability and has been pro customer lock-in for longer, I really have no sympathy. Covert to Xojo, or something. Maybe ask for help, since you freely admit to not understanding what the issues are. Or get your lazy devs understand that modern workplaces are heterogenous when it comes to devices.

Games ... jfc ... buy a friggin' game machine. Seriously, dude. 

And last, but not least, under no circumstances should you be mixing access to corporate data with your personal profile/software/anything. If you're putting anything personal on a company machine ... I'd fire your ass. By mixing these areas, you increase the likelihood of a breach exponentially. And legally, your company can confiscate your machine, whether you bought it or not. You have their property on it. Think of this like money. You never, ever mix personal and business funds, because it puts you in massive legal and financial jeopardy (look up 'piercing the corporate veil'). This doesn't even delve into the privacy concerns of mixing your private computing needs with your job's.

Which begs another question: how is it that you have access to such sensitive corporate data, but they don't issue you a work machine or compensate you for Parallels as a business expense? There's way too much that's shady and questionable about some of what you're describing.

I'd say this is just more FUD. 

EsquireCats said:

I like how developers get upset about the rule and attempt to outline it as some secretive policy.

IT'S LITERALLY SECTION 1 ON THE APP STORE GUIDELINES.

1. SAFETY
1.1 Objectionable Content
1.1.4 Overtly sexual or pornographic material

The fact that Apple as a 3rd party has to come in and remind the service provider about this guideline on a regular basis is not Apple being a bad guy or a "censor" - it's the service provider who is doing less than the minimum to adhere to the rules they voluntarily agreed to. The idea is simple enough, apps need to fit in a rating system, if they can't do that, then they can go the route of websites which have no content filtering.

The worse part of all of this is that it is utterly trivial to use machine learning to efficiently scan and tag potentially objectionable content as it's uploaded. This approach is so standard that it boggles my mind that there was some fool at tumblr who was doing it by hand based on complaint reports.

Does anyone remember what kicked off Apple's complaints against Tumblr? Child pornography, lots of it.

Thank you.