Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
That's the whole point.
Nobody will do this, intentionally or non-intentionally.
The editors, because this would cause a tremendous workload (imagine testing the book on many devices) in a business that is not a money fountain anyway.
|
We already do that, and you're right; it's expensive and time-consuming, the latter being the same as the former.
Quote:
The manufacturers because they want to sell the newest model, not to support the old ones (lost money twice: once for support, twice for preventing the sales of the new ones).
See how fast HDTV TV-sets with no HDMI disappeared from the homes? Put something incompatible with the older generations, then make that thing be unavoidable (or desired) and bingo, people will bring themselves the old gear to the dumpster 
|
You have to except Amazon from that statement. They have religiously supported all of their devices, from the get-go. It's one of the reasons that I admire them, particularly compared to Apple, which epitomizes your model. They are extremely callous about their customers' expenditures.
Hitch