On Jan 7, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:
At a user group meeting last week a question was asked that nobody
could answer. The user was not, shall we say, knowledgeable about
version and model numbers and the like but it went like this:
Highly interpreted sort of a quote begins.
I hooked my iPod to my new iMac running Lion as delivered. Some
things may have happened that were associated somehow with an
automatic software update. But after that I was severely unhappy
with the performance of the old iPod on the new Mac. I gave up and
decided to just use the iPod on my G4 and I don't know if that's
using OS 9 or OS 10.x. The iPod wouldn't work at all! Did using
the iPod on Lion ruin it so that it can never be returned to its
original mode of service?
I remain depressed. I donno about her. Has anyone here experienced
anything similar?
I was able to reliably crash any of my OS 9 machines by plugging in
my iPod Classic. Apparently Apple's older OS is vulnerable to
maliciously crafted USB devices.
In this case, it wasn't a regression -- it was shipped like that --
so there's no older state for me to restore. But the lesson is that
Apple's attitude toward backward compatibility borders on hostility.
Consider installing Rockbox or using a different device for playing
audio.
Josh
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