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Originally Posted by joblack
By the way, how many times did Apple users have to re-buy their software?
From Mac OS 9 to X? From Power Pc to Intel? From 10.4 to 10.5?
Microsoft tries to hold its backward compatibility. It's clear that this comes with some trade-offs (or usability issues).
Apple on the other hand just said: F**k the customers, we throw all old stuff away. Apple customers apparently like to re-buy everything.
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And again, you found something in between the lines to bash about. I never said it was unreasonable to charge for a new operating system; it's standard procedure. But that's one of the reasons which separate a software
update from an
upgrade, a service pack from a new OS. So to get back to my original argument: Vista sucks, no matter if with or without a service pack. The only way to fix this is by buying a new operating system. Which is not a software update.
By the way, I have really no idea what the heck you are talking about. Apple users have to pay for every new OS, just like Windows users. So I’m not sure what I am supposed to be re-buying all the time. Do you mean third-party software? If so, what makes you think that? Sure, software for OS9 had to be replaced with OSX software at some point. But for quite some time it could be run in a virtual environment, the classic system. And after that, chances were the remaining OS9 software was very old anyway. And the same holds true for Windows 98 software on current Windows systems.
After that, there have not been real incompatibility issues. PPC code runs transparently in the Rosetta layer (comparable to the compatibility mode in Windows) and everything from OSX.0 to OSX.6 is upwards compatible. So a software that was made for OSX.0 will likely run on my Snow Leopard as well. Unfortunately, software for newer OSX versions does not necessarily run on older versions, but this is the case with Windows as well.
So to claim that “Apple customers apparently like to re-buy everything” is just ... lame.