&gt;<i>The new King in town (Apple) is behaving worse than the previous one, and getting away with it!</i><p>The &quot;old King&quot; was a monopoly (95% of the market then). And even that wasn&#x27;t illegal.<p>They only had trouble because they used their monopoly position to threaten OEM vendors (PC makers) into certain deals.<p>Apple is far from a monopoly (like 15-20% of the laptop market and something like 30-40% of mobile), and stopping support for a product is not illegal.<p>And Microsoft supporting old OSes and browsers (IE6 etc) for ages held back the Windows ecosystem and the web for almost a decade. 10 years in IT are an eternity, and we had XP for almost as long.<p>&gt;<i>what can I do? I have a late 2011 13&quot; MBP and specific software that cannot run on Mavericks or newer.</i><p>Is that software that critical? No alternatives available?<p>Its the software&#x27;s vendors fault for not keeping their software up to date with OS releases (and, heck, 10.7 is 5+ years behind). Why should one software prevent you from updating your OS to the latest version? What if you wanted to buy a new computer (that would need to run the latest OS to have support for its latest generation hardware, GPU, USB3&#x2F;C etc)?