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Hellmark · 10-05-2009, 01:12 AM

The iMac was not where backwards compatibility was killed off.

Also, Apple has never greatly supported legacy products. Every release of MacOS dropped support for older machines, various types of hardware has gone by the way side (ADB, SCSI, more recently Firewire), and not to mention software. I mean, Macs have been on 3 totally different CPU architectures, not counting the various generational differences themselves. At some point, you have to draw the line. This has always been MS's biggest problem. It wasn't until recently that people stopped coding for Windows as if it was a single user OS. Stupid stuff like that causes most of the bugs, and security issues, on Windows.

10-05-2009, 01:12 AM	#24
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	The iMac was not where backwards compatibility was killed off. Also, Apple has never greatly supported legacy products. Every release of MacOS dropped support for older machines, various types of hardware has gone by the way side (ADB, SCSI, more recently Firewire), and not to mention software. I mean, Macs have been on 3 totally different CPU architectures, not counting the various generational differences themselves. At some point, you have to draw the line. This has always been MS's biggest problem. It wasn't until recently that people stopped coding for Windows as if it was a single user OS. Stupid stuff like that causes most of the bugs, and security issues, on Windows.