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Apple have demonstrated time and again that they are happy to break existing functionality if it suits their aims.
by dreaming 16y ago
Apple have demonstrated time and again that they are happy to break existing functionality if it suits their aims.
- theclay 16y agoAnd just as important--Apple's customers have demonstrated time and again that they will follow wherever Apple leads.
- tptacek 16y agoWhat's your best 2 examples?
- Yaa101 16y agoOSX and Intel processors...
- tptacek 16y agoOS X supported OS9 apps until long after people were puking at the mere sight of OS9 apps. And when they converted to Intel, they also provided Rosetta, a completely ridiculous binary translation system to make PPC apps work. Those are bad examples.
- rimantas 16y agoThe most striking for me when Jobs announced move to Intel was the bit where he told that they had OS X builds for Intel since the very first version of OS X. Who knows what are they cooking in their secret kitchens.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoNeXTStep was ported to x86 back in 1993, years before it was acquired and rebranded as Mac OS X. I would have been surprised if they had neglected to maintain an asset like that.
- gmlk 16y agoMotorola 68k -> Apple/Motorola/IBM PowerPC -> Intel ???