On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> For the most part, this is true. However, I have a Tiger machine from 2001
> that
> otherwise runs great, except current iPhones can't sync with the iTunes on
> that
> computer, and I can't install the current iTunes because they don't make 'em
> for
> PowerPC anymore.
That's true, but it's the way that Apple has consistently chosen to
deprecate old technology: announcing a future path, maintaining both ways for
several years, and then letting go. They did that with the 680x0 to PowerPC
switch; with the MacOS Classic to OS X switch, and now with the PowerPC to
Intel switch. I think that this is a much smarter way of dealing with change
than the Microsoft approach, which is to support everything forever. DOS
programs from the 1980s run just fine today, but that backwards compatibility
comes with a price: bloat and instability.
-- Ed Leafe
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