Re: Can't say I'm happy about -this-...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mford@socal.rr.com (Mike Ford) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> But the Mac transitions have always been different because
>> they have been transitions taking place over many years.
>> Same thing the the PC world where migration from ISA to
>> PCI slots take place with a transition of a couple of years
>> where motherboards have both types of slots.
>
>A key point of difference here is that Jobs/Apple has dropped OS support
>for the older hardware, INTENTIONALLY. Dropping support for the 68000,
>020, and 030 had some technical reasons, but Jobs ironically gave the 040
>its best OS release in 8.1 (with all the Next internal goodies), then shut
>it off with 8.5 (and people who have done some peeking inside 8.5 report
>it still has a LOT of 040 content, support was turned off). Add to that
>Apple shutting down all the 3rd party support areas on the web, then
>pulling all there own support docs off (until they were sued via the FTC).

I didn't know that, Mike.  Now that you have told me this, I
can see that Steve Jobs is up to his old tricks.  I had given
him credit for changing, but I see he is still intent on forced
migration like you said.

That's what he tried to do with the Apple III, which had code
in there to DELIBERATELY prevent accessing the III's
advanced features from A2 emulation mode.

It is now pretty obvious that had Jobs been there when the
first PowerMacs were released, they would not have been
NEARLY as good at emulation the 68k Macs as they were.
Jobs would have probably insisted on some cripple code to
make the 68k emulation less appealing so that users would
be FORCED to move to PPC stuff rather than allowed to
migrate at their own pace.

Steve Jobs, the antithesis of backward compatibility and
transitional models!

Steve Jobs may be good for Apple in the short term, but
his actions will ultimately damage the company.