On Mon, September 26, 2011 04:56, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > At 11:07 AM +0100 9/24/11, wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>Nobody includes back-comptability today. > > Actually, that's not true. Apple has maintained backwards > compatibility with its proprietary software for at least 4 versions > of its operating system. Only with the most recent new version are > they finally breaking that. Funny you should mention Apple; since they've abused their customers by breaking backwards compatibility worse than any other company I've ever heard of. Even worse than Canon! First there were 68000-based Macs, then PowerPC-based Macs, then OS-X, then Intel-based Macs (or maybe I've got the order wrong there). Each switch required a complete software re-load and re-buy. I'm amazed there are any Mac users left at all; but I know people who've been through every step of that nightmare, and still praise Apple. There's some kind of reality-distortion field involved, I think. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
