Sorry you had a bad experience with apple. That company is long dead and the Lisa success is proof that they didn't always know what was best.
However, we all need to be looking at how to be the best photographer and seeing when technology helps and when it gets in the way of that mission.
I got tired of rebuilding my installation every 6 months from viruses or general slow downs from hack software writers corrupting my registry to be a bigger waste of time and sanity and most of all a lack of data integrity from said corruptions. I have found my system and you yours. But if you continue to speak about a product that you admittedly don't and haven't used in over 20 years expect to get called out for spreading mis information about today's Apple.
Andy
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On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:01 AM, James Schenken <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> "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"
>
> Let's go back into history and look at the first hardware/software break for
> Apple - the Apple II to Mac conversion.
> Total break in both hardware and software - neither could be moved forward
> or backward.
>
> At the time, Apple offered the Mac/Lisa developers platform and I applied (
> and was willing to pony up the $7500 they wanted { that amount was 40% of my
> annual income at the time }). Apple looked at my proposed application and
> said "No Thanks we don't want folks like you doing things like that". My
> application was a small business management system / cash register that
> would totally automate a business. I built the first one for the IBM PC
> environment before any of the ubiquitous pc cash registers existed.
> Unfortunately I wasn't good at the business of selling but that's another
> story.
>
> Can't speak to the issue of software compatibility from that point forward.
> Dumped my Apple II, bought a PC box and never looked back.
>
