If you already sell $1K phones and then announce a $6K desktop, you may as well create a $5K display. I used to be an ardent supporter of the Macintosh line and their recent narcissistic approach has been off-putting at best. Mojave and their new file system has handicapped older machines with traditional (and difficult to replace) hard drives. Apple used to support and "honor" long time devotees. Not anymore. Cash cows is right.
Apple used to support and "honor" long time devotees. Not anymore.
No. Apple never cared about backwards compatibility. Apple ][ users were abandoned by the Mac. The 68k binaries were abandoned to PowerPC, which was abandoned to x86. Mac OS X gave legacy users of OS 9 a choice of upgrade or fade away.
Apple's "courage" to abandon the old and move on, has helped them avoid bloat and port proliferation, enabling clean designs. But be prepared to get screwed occasionally.
If you want backwards compatibility, stick with Microsoft.
Stuff written back in the 60's for their System/370 mainframe will run on it's latest direct descendant zSeries today.
Which is great for the very few organizations who need compatibility with software written before the internet, ethernet, or the personal computer even existed. There are a handful of companies with this sort of need and it's good they have options. That said, there are near-as-makes-no-difference zero people who are customers for any products made by Apple or Microsoft who need this level of backwards compatibility. Speaking for myself I can't think of any applications I use day to day which actually ne
Let's see, $5,000 for a monitor. $4,000 for executive salaries and expense accounts. $980 for strategic planning $3.00 for rent $17 for the Chinese employees to put it all together
Ridiculous ? (Score:4, Insightful)
The only ridiculous thing for Apple would be to refrain from milking their cash cows.
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If you already sell $1K phones and then announce a $6K desktop, you may as well create a $5K display. I used to be an ardent supporter of the Macintosh line and their recent narcissistic approach has been off-putting at best. Mojave and their new file system has handicapped older machines with traditional (and difficult to replace) hard drives. Apple used to support and "honor" long time devotees. Not anymore. Cash cows is right.
Mod this post up.
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Apple used to support and "honor" long time devotees. Not anymore.
No. Apple never cared about backwards compatibility. Apple ][ users were abandoned by the Mac. The 68k binaries were abandoned to PowerPC, which was abandoned to x86. Mac OS X gave legacy users of OS 9 a choice of upgrade or fade away.
Apple's "courage" to abandon the old and move on, has helped them avoid bloat and port proliferation, enabling clean designs. But be prepared to get screwed occasionally.
If you want backwards compatibility, stick with Microsoft.
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If you want backwards compatibility, stick with Microsoft.
Actually, IBM beats Microsoft on this.
Stuff written back in the 60's for their System/370 mainframe will run on it's latest direct descendant zSeries today.
Backwards compatibility needs have limits (Score:2)
Stuff written back in the 60's for their System/370 mainframe will run on it's latest direct descendant zSeries today.
Which is great for the very few organizations who need compatibility with software written before the internet, ethernet, or the personal computer even existed. There are a handful of companies with this sort of need and it's good they have options. That said, there are near-as-makes-no-difference zero people who are customers for any products made by Apple or Microsoft who need this level of backwards compatibility. Speaking for myself I can't think of any applications I use day to day which actually ne
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Spend, spend, spend. Always something new.
Definitely speak for yourself.
Re: Backwards compatibility needs have limits (Score:0)
Let's see, $5,000 for a monitor.
$4,000 for executive salaries and expense accounts.
$980 for strategic planning
$3.00 for rent
$17 for the Chinese employees to put it all together
Re: Backwards compatibility needs have limits (Score:2)
I guess parts, manufacturing and R&D are free in your parallel universe. Or maybe you're a dumbass.