I'm downgrading to iTunes 10.6.3 on Mac OS 10.5.8, the last version to work on PPC. Unfortunately I have to reimport all my music since 2012.
I held out at iTunes 10.7 for a long time because I don't want to lose USB sync of contacts and calendars.
My dad recently offered me an old PPC Mac Mini, and I hope I can get it to sync my iPhone 4S with iOS 6.1.3. It is possible to downgrade iOS using Odysseus, and I expect to keep this obsolete system for a while.
Apple had an ecosystem from 2001 (Quicksilver G4 running 10.5.8) to 2014 (iPhone 4S). That's 13 years, half my lifetime. iSync would "just work". Internet access is not always reliable enough for me to trust the cloud, and I prefer to manage my own Digital Hub.
I used some Platinum themes for about a year. It looks beautiful on Retina; there's so much space. Eventually I realised that my icon cache had grown to over 3GB though, so I removed them. I'm keeping an eye on the old versions though, just in case I get the urge to downgrade further at a later date.
Why do you want PPC? I'm thinking 10.6.x on the last Intel mac with Snowleopard support would be an 'upgrade' to your usecase.
Btw. what I miss most is the glory days of OSX Preview. This thing, I could just throw at it whatever I wanted and it would handle it without choking. Nowadays I have to force quit that damn thing more than I use it, just because I load some largish PNG. As a student this thing was the absolute killer feature for my mac, because I could put together conclusion papers way faster and in much higher quality than anything possible on Windows. Rectangular Text snippets being vector scalable after pasting into Pages and images keeping their original quality was just a godsend [1].
Preview shouldn't be falling over ever, even if PNG is a fairly inefficient format for partial loading. File a bug at https://bugreporter.apple.com or with Feedback Assistant.
I held out at iTunes 10.7 for a long time because I don't want to lose USB sync of contacts and calendars.
My dad recently offered me an old PPC Mac Mini, and I hope I can get it to sync my iPhone 4S with iOS 6.1.3. It is possible to downgrade iOS using Odysseus, and I expect to keep this obsolete system for a while.
Apple had an ecosystem from 2001 (Quicksilver G4 running 10.5.8) to 2014 (iPhone 4S). That's 13 years, half my lifetime. iSync would "just work". Internet access is not always reliable enough for me to trust the cloud, and I prefer to manage my own Digital Hub.
I used some Platinum themes for about a year. It looks beautiful on Retina; there's so much space. Eventually I realised that my icon cache had grown to over 3GB though, so I removed them. I'm keeping an eye on the old versions though, just in case I get the urge to downgrade further at a later date.