My mother asked me to help her with her iPhone and (old) Mac

Her iPhone didn't synchronise her photos anymore, it showed a message saying her iPhone is locked (it wasn't)

So after searching a bit I asked her when this problem showed up.
apparently, she tried synching her iPhone for the first time since she upgraded to my sisters iPhone 5s.

I found out that osx 10.6.8 and ios 10.x.x don't like each other...

Apple...

"It just works!"

...except when it doesn't, in which case you're fucked and can only reboot and pray.

@deadlyRants nope, it won't work whatever you try with this configuration.
Her mac is just too old, there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't work with her osx version, and she can't have a newer version than 10.6.8 on her current mac

She doesn't want to buy a new one just yet so I told her we could try Linux.

So I'll install it on a fresh disk for her to try out someday, I hope she's gonna be able to work with it

I remember trying to send data from my friends iPhone to a MacBook. We had no internet, and it was impossible to do via a cable :/

@runfrodorun still, why just cut off the compatibility if it could still work? I mean, for a giant like Apple, they could, but they would never do such a thing

Also I read on another rant that they now subtract basic features calling it "innovation"

@aile11 *cough* Like headphone jacks? *cough*

@BlueNutterfly yyyyuup :D

@runfrodorun I maybe didn't say enough, what I meant was how they could mess it up so you can't even move your pictures over, because on other OS' it apparently emulates a camera to let them see the pictures. Just saying they could've done at least something like that.

Now I'm still in my first year, and I didn't program anything great yet, but I do understand how tedious and time consuming porting is, I know of enough examples, I just meant Apple as a giant company could've maybe done a little bit better, just saying, the only indication of an error message was basically saying it doesn't work, which never helps anyone.

I think I wanted to get a point across, but I lost it...

@runfrodorun well, as far as I can see the iPhone emulates a camera on non-appearance computers and does something else for macs wich apparently isn't supported on her mac anymore

@runfrodorun well, I'll introduce her to Linux sometime when we have time
If she doesn't like it she'll have to buy a new laptop

@Tored luckily we still have airdrop. Or were the devices too old to support airdrop?