On May 17, 2004, at 9:22 AM, Powermac wrote:
The problem is its 200X harder to get a new customer then it is to keep an
old one (in any buisines). While PC users upgrade machines very 2-3 years
mac users can go with hardware upgrades and keep a machine for 10 years
(isn't that a selling point?).
No, it isn't...
The thing is sooner or later even they will
trade up and buy a new machine, most likely another mac. If apple starts
obsoleteing 3-4 year old hardware because new software won't run oj it (OS
9.1 era machines) to make you buy new machines (which is what they make
money on), people will start to re-evaluate their investment and maybe go
with a Wintel machine.
People too damn cheap to buy a new mac (and it's not every 3-4 years!) will go buy a Wintel and buy all new software (and all new troubles to go with it)
Riiiiiigggghhhht!.
There is no 3-4 year old machine that is not OS X capable.
The cutoff for OS X capability is the 9600 which was discontinued in 1998, 6 years ago. Moreover they run OS X perfectly fine, with those upgrades you're talking about and some hacking, and iTMS runs perfectly happy on them as well.
Apple simply cannot afford to coddle the cheapskates and stay in business.
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