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@macuser_22 I think both of us know there isn't much value to continuing this discussion. Intuit made a decision. I think it it is an unwise decision because it disrespects and abandons loyal customers who are stuck on an older version of macOS and can't upgrade on their current hardware. You think it is a defensible business decision to refuse to support TurboTax on an operating systems that the vendor (Apple) is no longer supporting.

I don't intend to argue (because I think it would be pointless). In the interest of accuracy, not argument, I want to respond to a few of your statements.

1. In a recent message you wrote "Is [I think that was intended to be "It"] is not business discussion". In your most recent message you wrote "I am sure that is a Intuit business decision." I suspect that your second statement is correct, so it is a business discussion.

2. In a recent message you wrote "the current Apple supplied developer tools only support OS's 10.14 and later. Any Apple application complied with the APPLE tools will not install in any earlier OS." No. While Apple only supports OS's 10.14 and later, Apple supplied developer tools can generate code for earlier deployment targets.

3. In response to my discussion of Apple development tools (specifically Xcode and SDKs), you wrote "True, but then they would not get support from Apple if problems arise since Apple no longer supports it." You seem to be responding to my comments about Xcode 12.1. In that case, I think you are mistaken because I believe that Apple still supports Xcode 12.1 (which was released on 20-Oct-2020).

4. You wrote "Also if they want to offer the latest Apple features they must use the current version of developer tools." If Intuit wants to use the latest Apple features (which were introduced in Big Sur), Intuit would either have to limit TurboTax to only running on Big Sur or would have to program around the absence of those features in earlier versions of macOS. The same statement could be made about Mojave. If Intuit wants to use the Apple features which were introduced in Mojave, Intuit would either have to limit TurboTax to only running on Mojave or later or would have to program around the absence of those features in earlier versions of macOS. I'm not aware of any features first introduced in Mojave on which TurboTax depends in a way that they couldn't program around the absence of those features. Are you aware of any? Again note that while Apple is only supporting Mojave and later, I believe that Apple is continuing to support development tools that can generate code for earlier deployment targets.

5. You wrote "TurboTax management made the decision several years ago to only use the latest Apple versions." If that were true, then TurboTax wouldn't run on anything earlier than Big Sur. You must have meant to say that Intuit management made a decision to prevent TurboTax from running on versions of macOS that wouldn't be supported by Apple through the filing year. (Note the distinction between "not support" and "prevent from running".) This is not a totally insane decision - there is some rationale for it. It is just an unwise business decision, particularly this year (due to Apple's migration to Apple silicon).

6. You wrote "I did not say XCode." But we were talking about Apple developer tools (i.e., Xcode and SDKs). I was saying that Apple continues to support developer tools that generate code for deployment targets earlier than Mojave.

7. You wrote " I will be in the same position next year, while I can upgrade to 10.14, it does not support 32 bit apps."  10.14 is Mojave, which does support 32-bit apps. I suspect you meant 10.15 (Catalina, which does not support 32-bit apps). There are various things that you could do. The easiest would be to switch from using TurboTax to use other tax software that runs on Mojave. Another simple option would be to have two boot volumes - one running Mojave for your 32-bit apps and the other running Catalina for TurboTax 2021. Another would be to run a virtual machine environment on one version of macOS and run the other version of macOS as a guest system in the virtual environment. The least likely to be successful is to try to persuade Intuit to care about customers like you, me, everybody else who has contributed to this thread, and the many, many more customers that are having the same problem but haven't participated in (may not even know about) this thread.