Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:45 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > Funny you should rail on apple in particular. Apple actually allowed for each transitional break from hardware plat forms to be one version backwards compatible. Exactly opposite of what you claim. The transition from PowerPC to intel in osx has been heralded as the most successful and invisible from a user standpoint. All of the burden was on the software developers. Apple even gave developers a program environment to compile code for all existing platforms. Look up Coco, universal application, Rosetta before you trash apple about not being backwards comparable. Yell at adobe for being slow to convert their work. Yell at Microsoft for refusing to admit it was time to move on. Apple supported developers all along the way a gave tools to keep moving. Adobe and MS and quicken ect chose to neglect their mac customers and take their money without making the software have feature parity to the Ms equivalents. Andy
