Does still make sense to reply at the end of the message? See below Sent from my iPad
On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:21 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > >>>>>> And is Apple proposing to do away with this? NO. Apple is adding in >>>>>> new options. >>>>> >>>>> Kinda like when they added the CD drive, but still kept the floppy drive. >>>>> >>>>> Oh, wait... >>>> >>>> You mean the CD drives that showed up, I think, with the Quadras and >>>> the floppy that was killed by the iMac? Around 6 years later? >>> >>> No, I surely don't mean those CD drives. Those CD drives weren't writeable >>> devices. >>> >>> If you reconsider the time line between when optical drives arrived that >>> users could use to actually store and exchange their own stuff, vs. when >>> floppies (which users had been using for this purpose for years) were >>> yanked out of the product line, you will find that this six years goes >>> to... um... NEGATIVE THREE YEARS. The original 1998 iMac only came with a >>> CD-ROM. The CD-RW wasn't introduced until the Early 2001 iMac. A truly >>> user-hostile decision. :-( >> >> I don't know. I bought a bondi blue iMac the first day they were for sale. >> I never had an issue with a missing floppy or lack of CDR drive. I rarely >> used the floppy on my previous Macs (Mac 9600 back to Mac Plus with many in >> between ) >> to store data either. > > Still, the point abides: you cannot assume Steve always giveth replacements > as he taketh away capabilities. Right, but him/they do this based on data research and the certainty that what it's been got rid of is not really used anymore by any significative number of people. No disrespect for that number of people, but there's always been left behind with changes. Plus, these were certainly replacements to a dying technology and a great opportunity to escape from the craze of storage offers that were trying to get in by that time. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
