On Feb 16, 2010, at 3:22 PM, John Niven wrote:
I concur. I have both the short one and the longer one and only the longer one works with Tiger. I still use the short one on my server but you don't get the full functionality. Such a shame. I can't imagine there is a REAL reason for Apple doing this.
yes there's a real reason. Apple designed the keyboards for their new computers with their current OS and never considered backwards capability. There's been firmware updates for these keyboards, which implies that they're NOT just 'dumb collection of switches.' I know for a fact that while the long ones work just fine on older Macs running 10.5 (all those F-keys do work), the keyboards themselves aren't fully recognized....if I need to boot holding down shift or the C key, I have to plug an older keyboard into my Mac. (first gen intel iMac)
It's as simple as that, they don't care if it broke something they don't support. They made sure it works with the systems they designed it for.
The REASON Apple can turn on a dime and Microsoft takes years to alter course is that Apple keeps their 'long tail' trimmed quite short.
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