Petitioning Dropbox For Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 Continued Support

Last week Dropbox announced to its users that app support for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 will end May 18 — disappointing news for those of us who are still getting useful service out of older PPC Macs that can only run up to those OS X versions. I’m still running two old G4-upgraded 2000 Pismo PowerBooks with OS X 10.4, and my wife’s daily driver is a 17-inch G4 PowerBook running OS X 10.5.

Low End Mac’s Dan Knight has posted a Web petition requesting that Dropbox rethink dropping Tiger and Leopard support.

The petition reads, in part:

“We, the undersigned, use Dropbox in our daily workflow on PowerPC Macs running OS X Tiger and Leopard as well as on other platforms – Intel Macs, iOS devices, Windows PCs, Linux PCs, and Android devices. We want to see Dropbox continue to support our hardware and operating systems. About 20 million units, ranging from the Blue & White Power Mac G3 introduced in January 1999 until the last PowerPC Macs were introduced in October 2005 (and still on sale in mid 2006) can run OS X 10.4 and 10.5. OS X Tiger was launched in April 2005 and last updated in November 2007, while Leopard debuted in October 2007 and was last updated in August 2009.

“It is frustrating when technology moves forward and leaves our perfectly usable old Macs behind, but it’s even worse when that seems to be an arbitrary decision. Even though Apple, Microsoft, and others have left our PowerPC gear behind, we still have a modern browser thanks to the TenFourFox team regularly porting the newest version of Mozilla to G3, G4, and G5 CPUs….

“Many of these machines are still powerful enough today for users to run them as their daily primary or secondary machine, courtesy of first party and third party support. Many users of legacy PowerPC hardware running Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard appreciate the ease with which they can move files to other machines running later version of OS X or to an iOS device running the latest build of iOS, or vice versa, courtesy of the simple syncing process Dropbox provides….

“It doesn’t make sense to end support for these versions of Mac OS X users when iOS devices and Macs work so seamlessly together. Dropbox helps provide some of that seamless experience for Mac and iOS users, so Dropbox can only benefit from retaining that on as many devices as possible….

“There are thousands of users and tens of thousands of legacy Macs that need Dropbox to continue to thrive to allow for a simple seamless connection across all Mac OS X and other devices. The sharing features between other users’ clients are also priceless. If keeping that alive takes a small investment on behalf of this community, I can assure you that you have our support. We are a very dedicated bunch, and by continuing to keep our PowerPC equipment synced up, Dropbox will surely benefit from our continued support, both as a product advocate and business partner….”

For more information, visit:
http://goo.gl/iVZY4Z

To electronically sign the petition, visit:
https://www.change.org/p/dropbox-continue-to-support-dropbox-on-mac-os-x-10-4-and-10-5?just_created=true

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