There's a good chance this might be down to Apple's constantly changing foundations and the fact that a studio's worth of music software can (especially back then) cost a lot of money to upgrade on top of the new hardware requiring the upgrade in the first place. And that's not going into the case where the company that wrote the software has gone bust.
Given you mentioned G4, there's a good chance they had recent memory of having to upgrade a load of stuff to jump from OS9 to OSX. The Intel architecture change required another upgrade for a lot of software, so it probably made a lot of sense to try and eek more value out of the previous round of purchasing before going again.
Hopefully they delayed enough to not get hit rapidly by the changes in Yosemite, Mojave or Catalina which all necessitated upgrades (IIRC, one might have only been some edge cases) or finally the most recent jump to ARM—which still isn't natively supported by a surprising number of DAW or VST vendors.
On Windows I can run any DAW or VST that's been written since about 2006 natively and can even load up a 32-bit DAW if I want to dust off some ancient project with ancient VSTs that never made the jump to 64-bits.
I remember cobbling something like this together myself using a Kodi plugin called PseudoTV a number of years ago
Definitely a lot more usable from a browser for sure. I'd echo other comments that a TV guide style interface would be a fantastic addition that would take this from a "that's cool" to something I'd potentially regularly use.
This is how these EU regulations get their teeth: turnover not profit and global not local to a region—they can't creatively account their way out of the fine and it's always going to be big enough to really want to avoid, no matter the size of the company. None of this "the fine is just the permit fee for those that can afford it" attitude.
The exact example you're describing is what the ActivityPub spec and the resulting "Fediverse" are aiming to solve. Mastodon and compatible microblogging platforms are distributed versions of Twitter, Lemmy & Kbin are compatible distributed versions of Reddit/HN style link aggregators.
Given the boost both of these parts of the fediverse have gotten from Twitter/Reddit's series of missteps recently, they're starting to look like they could become viable long-term alternatives.
Any kind of life extension breakthrough is going to introduce heaps of problems in how our society functions. It is fundamentally not designed to cope with people not retiring and dying.
Plus, if we've not figured out how to live away from this planet in perpetuity around the same time, we're going to quickly run out of space too.
And (to address your other comment) I assume you aren't being literal with your specific example (because the guy you were responding to didn't literally mean people were assessed on their ability to walk to a shop specifically), but yeah there have been reports of people who can't walk very far getting told they're fit for work (For instance this guy: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/photographer... from earlier this week)
You're aware there's a mass of evidence that the DWP is, at best, ineffective and trending towards excessively cruel in its capability assessments? It's not exactly something that's gone unreported.
Your friend is lucky, I know several people personally who have been dragged through the courts for months before they were able to get their incorrect assessment overturned.
I expect the health-checking happens independently of the routing. The routing will just act upon a list of routes which is modified independently by the health check.
The employer should endeavour to close those gaps via training or even just advocating things like more pairing. It shouldn't be acceptable for a developer to silo themselves off from the rest of their team (except maybe a non-artificially-short-deadline or start-up type environment).
Given you mentioned G4, there's a good chance they had recent memory of having to upgrade a load of stuff to jump from OS9 to OSX. The Intel architecture change required another upgrade for a lot of software, so it probably made a lot of sense to try and eek more value out of the previous round of purchasing before going again.
Hopefully they delayed enough to not get hit rapidly by the changes in Yosemite, Mojave or Catalina which all necessitated upgrades (IIRC, one might have only been some edge cases) or finally the most recent jump to ARM—which still isn't natively supported by a surprising number of DAW or VST vendors.
On Windows I can run any DAW or VST that's been written since about 2006 natively and can even load up a 32-bit DAW if I want to dust off some ancient project with ancient VSTs that never made the jump to 64-bits.