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My High Sierra Safari no longer works on many sites, and every other browser has either given up on High Sierra or placed it on temporary life support. I am desperate to find a working alternative to keep from having to buy an entirely new system -- which will be a problem for me, because my publishing business relies on High Sierra to run software that either doesn't work the same in later versions or is buggy or requires a costly subscription or doesn't run at all. I WOULD GLADLY PAY FOR A WORKING, UPDATED BROWSER SO I CAN REMAIN IN HIGH SIERRA. (And if it has Safari's Reader View too, that would be icing on the cake.)

    This could be an lucrative market niche for Orion to bring in more paying customers. Apparently High Sierra is the most common macOS used on the web outside of the latest releases, which are already well supported with free browsers (Safari of course for those on Ventura+ along with Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, which have all settled on Catalina as the minimum OS for new versions).

    https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/macos/desktop/worldwide/
    https://techjury.net/blog/macos-statistics/

    The above suggests a Total Market of ~ 1 M High Sierra users still on an OS now 6 years old, 5 years superseded, and 4 years "unsupported". I am sure those users got the message about newer OS a long time ago which implies they have their reasons for sticking with High Sierra just as Aaron has.

    Offering safer browsing across the modern web while retaining High Sierra compatability might be something a lot of those people are willing to pay for (and then even continue to use even after they upgrade to something newer given the superior browsing experience). If even 1% of them converted to paying Orion customers that could pay for several additional developers and I bet the incremental costs of HIgh Sierra support wouldn't require that.

    Dislcosure: I am not a High Sierra user (Mojave is the oldest my current hardware will run) but I am imagining that further High Sierra support would bring further support to the Mojave and Catalina versions (e.g.the Mojave text edit issue, WebP support, Netflix support, memory issues). Additionally the idea tweaked my curiosity from a business case perspective.

      Yes, we would love to do this. Time to support Orion is now, as what is preventing us from doing this earlier is lack of resources (yes sort of a chicken and an egg problem). Orion is entirely finances by 1100 or Orion+ subscribers and that is not enough ti do everything we want to do.

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