You really have to forgive and move on. Apple has stopped supporting many things but the things they have replaced them with are superior. Microsoft has too. When is the last time you have used a 5 1/4" floppy or an MFM drive. Apple gave them up in 1984 nearly 10 years before everyone else with the 3.5" floppy and SCSI drives (hmm they are still compatible.) Anyway do you really need that kind of legacy support? How about that serial mouse? Apple was the first to use USB. History is full of obsoleted technology. It is apparent that the CD and DVD are going away too looking at Apples newest hardware. Apple may appear to strand their users but they have ushered in all of the current technology. Apple brings the future today. This is why people buy them. Some people don't like change and others embrace it. To each their own I say. Andy Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:38 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-09-26 18:38, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: >> At 9:45 AM -0500 9/26/11, David Dyer-Bennet 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! >> >> Must have been a long time since you've used a Mac. My experience is >> that your statement is completely incorrect. > > You have a short time horizon, it looks like. I'm still using Nikon lenses I bought before Canon completely orphaned all its current customers and brought out a new lens mount, too. > > In fact, while I've never owned an Apple product, I've done various hardware upgrades and replacements on Mac products going back to the 68000 days; I watched all these changes flow by my Mac-owning friends, and wondered why they didn't take the clear hint that they should RUN AWAY! > -- > 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 >
