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Brian Eno and Karl Hyde: Daddy's Car

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klys (maker of Silmarils)6/01/2014 4:57:54 pm PDT

re: #50 freetoken

Yes, not going to do it though, since 10.6.8 is the last version of OSX that will support some of the old programs (no longer available) that I use.

This is not Apple’s fault. I want to use old software. I can upgrade to the latest OSX or not, it’s my choice.

In fact, if I really wanted to (and I don’t), I can still find ways to run years old Apple software.

Apple provided a way for old Apple OS programs to run under OSX when the big change came.

Then, in an even more impressive move, when Apple moved to i86 platforms from their own PPC processors, they provided a way to run old software on the new machines, quite a feat of interoperability that no other vendor of small machines I can recall ever has done.

I’m not an Apple fan boy, but I do think they have gone out of their way to be a premier systems integrator, and that includes helping people transition.

They’ve nixed the Rosetta support.

A long time ago, in fact.

Ask me how I know.

I’m not pro-Windows or pro-Apple. I run mostly Windows these days because that is what is convenient for me on my home network and (in the case of my desktop) I build my own machine. Apple won’t let me do that.

Apple has done a fair number of things that are good. They have done a fair number of things that are really shitty. I’m not claiming they’re either bad or good.

What I am saying is that their model is one of planned obsolescence. Like most tech companies, except that other companies do a much better job of providing backwards compatibility.