> Apple made the transition and, as a result, all software and hardware this company had invested in became obsolete, virtually overnight. We are talking about

> Apple made the transition and, as a result, all software and hardware this company had invested in became obsolete, virtually overnight. We are talking about a non-trivial amount of money and resources. Are you talking about the 68k to PPC transition? Because Apple made an enormous amount of effort to ensure both forward and back compatibility so I don't think your statement is true at all. "Fat binaries" allowed new software to run on 68k systems for years after the transition - you could even run 68k Mac apps on OS X for a few years! And future versions of MacOS remained compatible with 68k Macs up until (if my memory serves) Mac OS 8.1. Even if you didn't upgrade to OS 9, most software ran on 8 anyway just fine. They had to draw the line somewhere, but you had a long time to deal with the transition thanks to Apples efforts.