Uh-oh, sounds like support will be provided by a chatbot soon.

Aren't these the ones that sucked because old threads are read-only. The volume of times I've found a solution and gone to post it, but can't, is ridiculous.

At least with stack overflow you could add new info to old issues.

It’s a profoundly stupid decision. Typical of Apple of the last ten or so years. The good days are far gone.

The sad part about this is the wealth of historical knowledge that will be lost by the forum going offline. Of course I'd guess Apple is doing this to stop a.i. scraping of this data to enrich other LLMs.

The company who strives to make any older version of hardware or software as unsupported as possible as soon as possible (unless of course it's a fucking lightning cable that results in a profit for them and millions of pieces of e-waste as people kept buying them over the years) continued with their MO. Cannot say it is surprising.