That may be the developers view - what about the users?
I am not a professional developer, and as a user (I have 10.4 on a PB for personal stuff, 10.3 on a 7 year old 350Mhz G3 that runs as a print server and other things, and 10.2 on a dual G4 that runs my music stuff) I have not found anything that I use to be fraught in any way...perhaps the developers who make the software I use have torn their hair out, but I paid what they asked so it's really not my problem.
Nor have I had to upgrade any of my software or peripherals to accomodate OS releases, though I am about to upgrade the G4 to OS 10.4 as some new (non-apple) software I'm getting requires it. Having said that, I've generaly avoided the bleeding edge, and I tend to only upgrade anything when there is a fairly compelling reason to, like some new feature that I might actually use :)
I think Apple have always focused on the user experience, perhaps at the expense of the developer experience - and I hope they continue to. (This is not to suggest that MS don't, I'm sure they do, but I've never used windows seriously, so I really can't say anything useful about it).
Best, Mark On 10 Jul 2006, at 00:23, Chipp Walters wrote:
Forget the cost, every OSX release has been fraught with bugs and inconsistencies which send developers scurrying to provide updates. I've said it before, but we spend at least 4X the resources keeping our Mac products updated as we do Windows.
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