I guess Merlin's argument taken to the extreme is that Apple should wait until every piece of software written for a Macintosh computer is SL-compatible before

I guess Merlin's argument taken to the extreme is that Apple should wait until every piece of software written for a Macintosh computer is SL-compatible before they release Snow Leopard? "Well, I don't want to go that far -- I just want the apps that I use to be compatible", you might say. That's not fair unless you consider all of the apps that everyone uses and wait for those to be compatible. Very quickly we get closer to needing every app to be working again. Upgrades can be bumpy. I lost a Dashboard widget that I use a lot (and didn't get upgraded until today), a few Preference Panes are a bit buggy, and my Safari plugins are totally f'd (since Safari64 can't load 32-bit plugins, I believe. I could be wrong, though -- ask John Siracusa). Yes, Merlin probably shouldn't have had TextMate and Photoshop crash on him. But at the same time, this is point-oh software -- I guess that in 2009, that means we should take it with a grain of salt. By the by: I can't imagine that Apple releasing Snow Leopard a month ahead of schedule was a good thing for developers ( == 1 less month to Snow Leopard-proof their applications). I wonder if that is a contributing factor to the mountain of problems that people are having.