14 DAY TRIAL // You can tell Apple doesn’t care so much these days about things like Remote Desktop, the video guides showing you things like how to run Windows on a Mac, or portions of the Apple.com web site that are rarely ever accessed by the user base.
One key indicator is the aging graphics and promotional materials used in these areas. Take for instance Apple’s Remote Desktop marketing page. It still features graphics that are at least four years old, dating to a time when Snow Leopard was the main Mac OS installed worldwide. If you’re new to the Mac (like post-Mountain Lion new) you probably don’t even know where that purple-haze wallpaper comes from.
Other discrepancies can be found in the iconography, which is visibly outdated.
The Apple RSS Feeds page is in the same boat. Featuring a Mac running OS X Lion (2011), this portion of Apple’s web site admittedly doesn’t really need a makeover. People go there for the links, period. Then again, it could use a bit of tidying up as it still includes a link to the iMix guide that shows you how to create iMixes on a version of iTunes as old as time itself.
Finally, Support article VI54 shows people how to run Windows 7 on a Snow Leopard Mac. We’re in a time where Mavericks is the de facto OS across desktop Macs, so maybe Apple should reflect that with a new video tutorial.