Major, Disruptive and rushed? There have been a number of Major shifts.
I can remember, vaguely, the shift from System 6 to 7. Then from 8 to 9.
Then from Motorola 68K chips to PPC. Then from 9 to OS X. Apple has
always given you the choice of going with them or not, and they have
made great strives to make sure you can use old programs on the new
gear. Rosetta is the latest thing, but we had emulation when the switch
from 68K to PPC happened (there were FAT Binaries or something then).
You don't HAVE to have the latest gear. Hell, I remember working for a
guy who used a Lisa for his accounting program in the mid 90s. He used
it on the Lisa. He didn't expect it to run on other Macs. He just booted
up the Lisa for the program he needed. That is long term use there.
Probably still works for him.
As for disruptive....I guess it could be if you wanted to be on the
cutting edge. I know I held off going strictly OS X for a long time
until all my applications were working on it and stable.
Rushed? Well.....it's technology. And it's Apple. Apple moves forward
before everyone else. They dropped the floppy drive years before other
companies. They dropped legacy ports in favor of USB. They went
wireless. They went bluetooth (I believe it is now standard on all
models of macs).
Robert Patterson wrote:
Speak for yourself. I am a Mac user who has been (and remains) quite angry
about the Mac platform's continual abandonment of legacy apps. It costs us a
great deal of wasted effort and ultimately harms the platform's reliability for
long-term use.
The poster who brought up this topic wanted to revive a religious platform war
that was irrelevant to the thread. (Indeed, the thread was apparently started
by a Win user to begin with.) But I find myself in agreement with David Fenton
that you can't overlook the fact that he's right, whether you think it matters
or not.
BTW, no one goes any direction but forwards, unless they have a time machine.
What irritates me is that the platform shifts on Mac have been so major,
disruptive, and rushed. I got fooled by the Lisa-to-Mac transition, which Apple
did kinda right. (My first personal computer was a Lisa.)
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