From: Bryce Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As to compatibility with past operating systems;
suspect Classic is as suggested on Death Row,
and probably the current OSX line is next.
Given that Steve said (twice!) in his keynote that the move to OS X
and OS X itself has set Apple up "for the next 20 years," of which we
are in Year 5, I'd love to know the source for your speculation --
since it isn't anything Apple or Steve said.
If we on this list wish to be able to use non-current
Operating Systems, then we'd best purchase
hardware now compatible with our decision.
If by "now" you mean "within the next decade, when PPC-based Macs
will finally start getting as scarce as Apple IIs are now," then yes.
Otherwise, what the ...??
Or maybe you mean "if you want to buy brand new, still-in-shrinkwrap
PPC Macs, you'd better buy them now meaning up to a year and a half
from now"??
Oh, and btw -- when have "those of us who wish to run non-current
OSes" ever NOT had to concern themselves with when machines that run
those choices would no longer be produced?
Steve killed off OS 9 in 2002. Strangely, I can still buy an OS 9-
booting Mac anytime I want, at very inexpensive prices. Check back
with me in five years and I believe I would be able to say the same.
So I'm wondering what your point is, or why you labour under the
delusional and flat-out-wrong belief that the next few updates of Mac
OS X will not work on PPC-based Macs -- particularly when Steve
EXPLICITLY said otherwise in his keynote?
(you know, watching the keynote instead of relying on half-bites from
other sources would probably help a lot ...)
Keep in mind the operating system may well change
in the future, the connecting software may have to change as
well.
Well, that's ... um, vague. Yes, in the world of the unspecified
future which could be 10 years or 10,000 years from now, things will
be ... different! Wow, tell us more, Nostradamus.
In a world where producing new product means your business
will succeed, the long term is simple. Satisfy the stockholder,
make money, satisfy the customer/consumer of your product
and continue to make money.
If Apple were solely focused on keeping their stockholders happy,
they'd be out of business by now. Can you think of any other business
where the stock has gone from $13/share to over $200/share (adjusted)
and then back down to it's present level of $80/share (adjusted)?
Who's happy (other than the people who bought at $13/share and sold
at $100/share?).
Apple is not "about" making stockholders happy. They make money (and
thus pay stockholders) in order to keep the doors open and fund R&D.
But what they chase IS NOT the almighty dollar. If you don't get
that, you really don't understand Apple and never have.
Disclaimer: I have worked for Apple several times over the years.
_Chas_
Claiming that the Macintosh is inferior to Windows because most
people use Windows is like saying that all other restaurants are
inferior to McDonald's.
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