It depends on the country (and in the US, the state) in which you live, but the generic Apple policy in the US is that machines move to "Vintage" status (no support from or repair in App Stores or at Apple Authorized repair outfits unless they haven to have parts in stock) five years after Apple stopped selling that particular model (so roughly October 2026 for your model). However what's different this time around is that many countries are hassling Apple for not allowing competition on their devices, and if Apple licensed other manufacturers to build hardware clones and/or to replace the OS on Apple's devices, that would likely reduce the cries of "monopoly."Īs an owner of a 2019 MBP 16” Intel do I need to worry about Apple not supporting it anytime soon? There's no need for anyone to ridicule me for suggesting this, as I'm already sure nobody will agree with me that Apple should try this again. Apple could take this approach again if it wants to crack the 10% market penetration of MacOS. Ī total of 33 companies made Mac clones, fully licensed. However, by 1996 Apple executives were worried that high-end clones were cannibalizing sales of their own high-end computers, where profit margins were highest. WIKIPEDIA: From early 1995 through mid-1997, it was possible to buy PowerPC -based clone computers running Mac OS, most notably from Power Computing and UMAX. One way Apple tried to remedy this in the 1990s was to grant licenses to other companies to build Mac clones. Apple's market penetration of the PC marketplace has been stuck under 10% for over 25 years.
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