Since I am the original poster I feel impelled to comment.
Yesterdays Digest contained a number of posts expressing the attitude that businesses should not design their IT business to include that minority of users using something less than the latest or previous latest software.
Times change, progress moves along. You either change with the times, or you get left behind. Don't expect progress to stop just to make you happy! It ain't gonna happen.......
I find that position to be somewhat absurd.
Mac users as a group are a minority. The last time I heard an official figure we represented 5% of computer users. Any business that ignores 5% of potential business is being poorly lead.
But you were talking about OS9, and how many Mac users are still using OS9 as their main OS ? I doubt it is even close to 2% of all computer users. I seriously doubt that most business owners are laying awake at night worrying about 2% (or less) of the market!
Todays posts include statements that denigrate me for using a 5 or 6 year old computer and not the latest OS. It must be real nice to have the kind of money to play with new or almost new equipment and software.
I suspect that many of you are some what younger than I and that you still embrace change for changes sake.
Well. I'm 49 years old, and I have learned over the years that it's foolish to ignore the fact that you need to stay abreast of current technology, or you put yourself at a disadvantage to everyone else. If you choose to make the decision to let the rest of the world pass you by, don't expect the majority of folks to feel sorry for you. I certainly don't have the "latest and greatest". As I said in an earlier post, my newest Mac is my iceBook, and it's almost three years old now, and my Sawtooth is even older. And then there is my B&W, my G3 AIO, my Rev D iMac, and my Umax S900! The only machine in that list that isn't running (or will be running) OS X is the S900, and that's because I got it for it's dual processors to run BeOS. And we don't even want to talk about all my non-PPC machines! I personally believe in running the latest OS that the machine is capable of running, wherever possible.
I decided long ago that newer was not always better. That probably came about when I realized that newer is almost always more expensive and more complicated.
I don't see that at all. When you compare what you are getting today for your computing dollar with the cost of Macs of the past, it's no contest. Compare the cost of an original Mac, with the price of a new top-of-the-line G5, and it's no contest! Especially when you compare the value of the dollar in the 80's with todays dollar!
I can run OS X on my B&W machine but why would I want to?
All of my apps are OS 9 or earlier. I should change just so I could spend all my time in classic?
Part of my decision to stay with OS 9 is due to the many struggles with OS X I see posted to this list. I need an entire new suite of software to struggle through learning like I need a hole in the head. I just don't have the time for that.
Have you even TRIED OS X? How can you compare two OS's, without actually trying them both? You have two machines perfectly capable of running OS X, and someone has even offered to GIVE you a copy for free! Why not give it a fair trial and see for yourself? And from what I've read here, I don't really see that many folks having major issues. I would venture to say that the vast majority of folks have never had any serious issues, but they aren't the ones that post to here and other lists. You're much more likely to hear from folks who have problems, than from folks who don't, and why should you? If they don't have a problem, they aren't going to asking for help. Remember, it's the squeaky wheel that gets all the attention.
In closing I feel compelled to say that I am dismayed with where some of the listers have taken this thread. It appears that some have forgotten or were never taught the rule "If you can't say something nice, Don't say anything at all".
Sorry that you can't take a bit of constructive critisism. The point we are all trying to make is that the Mac OS is moving into the future, and whether you like it or not, the rest of the world is moving along too. Developers are leaving the "classic" Mac OS behind. Classic apps aren't being updated, and no new apps are being written. Support for the old apps is being discontinued. That's just the way it works. The computing world is not going to stop and wait for you to decide your ready to move with it. For example, I'd love to be using BeOS as my main OS, but without any current support for app development, at least for PPC, it just ain't an option anymore. Yeah, I still love it as an OS, and I still fire up the S900 and enjoy using it for a while, but the world has moved on, and I'm wise enough to realize that I needed to move too. And OS 9 is headed down that same road. Sorry to break the news to you.....
JR
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