Editing AppleTalk (section)

===Legacy and abandonment===
With the purchase of [[NeXT]] and subsequent development of [[Mac OS X]], AppleTalk was strictly a legacy system. Support was added to Mac OS X in order to provide support for a large number of existing AppleTalk devices, notably [[laser printer]]s and file shares, but alternate connection solutions common in this era, notably USB for printers, limited their demand. As Apple abandoned many of these product categories, and all new systems were based on IP, AppleTalk became less and less common. AppleTalk support was finally removed from the macOS line in [[Mac OS X v10.6]] in 2009.<ref name="snow_leopard_printing">{{cite web |url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3771 |title=Mac OS X v10.6: Mac 101 – Printing |access-date=2 September 2009}}</ref>

However, the loss of AppleTalk did not reduce the desire for networking solutions that combined its ease of use with IP routing. Apple has led the development of many such efforts, from the introduction of the [[AirPort]] router to the development of the [[zero-configuration networking]] system and their implementation of it, Rendezvous, later renamed ''[[Bonjour (software)|Bonjour]]''.

As of 2020, AppleTalk support has been completely removed from legacy support with macOS 11 Big Sur.