I had a Mac (a few years old) that I was happy with and saw no need to upgrade (if it ain&#x27;t broke, don&#x27;t fix it).  Had I known that the upgrade to iOS9 (which had a feature I would like) would make it impossible to backup said phone to the Mac, I would not have upgraded it (especially since once the upgrade to the iPhone happened, it was impossible to downgrade to iOS 8.4, which I was also happy with).<p>Yes, the upgrade was free (monetarily).  It was <i>not</i> free timewise, and it took a few weeks to sort out as it completely broke my workflow (it broke the running version of Synergy <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;synergy-project.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;synergy-project.org&#x2F;</a> and to upgrade that would have required an upgrade of my Linux system (yes, it&#x27;s an older system---again, it ain&#x27;t broke so I&#x27;m not fixing it and lose even more time and effort).<p>I was able to fix the Synergy issue (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boston.conman.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;15.2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boston.conman.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;15.2</a>) but the point remains---Apple forcing updates.  I know most here just live with the constant upgrade treadmill (&quot;OH MY GOD!  YOU HAVEN&#x27;T UPDATED IN 20 MINUTES?  HERETIC!&quot;) but having been burned oh so many times in the past thirty years I&#x27;ve grown to dread it.  It gets tiresome relearning how to use something I&#x27;ve already learned how to use yet again.  For the tenth time.  Because we in the industry have deemed that if a program hasn&#x27;t been changed in the past twenty minutes, it therefore must be unmaintained and a piece of garbage (with the sole exception of zlib I think).<p>Me, bitter?