Re: Apple does it again

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shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>Yeah no joke. All Apple is asking is for you to have a Mac introduced this
>decade, or a IIci at the oldest. When you consider how much code it takes to
>support the oldest boxes, the amount of testing to make it sure it works,
>and compare that to the number of people with a 68000, '020, or IIx, IIcx,
>or SE/30 who will actually upgrade, you can see why this decision was made.
>I have an SE/30 myself, and I'm kinda bummed about not being able to run 7.6
>on it, but I'm not gonna piss and moan about it. For one thing, I'm not sure
>that any new features from 7.6 on would even be worthwhile on my old black
>and white 16 MHz box.
>On the other hand, as long as you have a 32 bit '030 or '040, you can count
>on support into the next century, even after Rhapsody, the native only OS
>coming out next summer, debuts. Amelio made that pledge during his Macworld
>keynote. This may surprise people who think Apple should still be developing
>for every box it has ever made, but some of the Pmac owning readers of
>comp.sys.mac.system don't like how Apple still supports any 68K Macs and think
>they should stop. I'm really glad to see that the Q840AV I just got will be
>supported until I get ready to replace it with a Pmac, most likely in 18 to
>24 months.
>-- 
>Randy Shackelford                                 
>shack@frii.com

It would be nice if Apple could provide an upgrade path for old computers.
Remember the IIe to IIgs logic board swap?  That's what I mean.  You could
always count on this with PCs, but not with Apple.

For example, Apple did not make the Mac able to run II software.  Think
about how it pulled off the IIgs and you'd see it is not impossible or
even infeasable.  Another example is this current activity of dumping
old Mac users.

WHY doesn't Apple offer a logic board upgrade?  They want you to buy
a whole new computer and make lots of money.  This strategy will backfire.
People will turn to PCs.  The Windows 95 interface, after all, is pretty
darn good even though I don't agree with the company that made it.

-Scott G.