Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[Eric Doenges <doenges@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>]

"Lawson English" <english@primenet.com> writes:

>>Now, the above analysis is obviously simplistic (a real analysis has to
>>take into account the competition's response as well).  If you have a
>>better case, please make it, and compare it with the actual course taken
>in
>>the following three areas:  benefits, drawbacks and risks.

>Benefits: Makes Steve Jobs' baby the only thing important at Apple.
>Drawbacks: Does away with cash cow invented by Steve's archrival, Steve.
>Risks: None worth mentioning (obviously -we're talking about Steve Jobs
>baby, and that is all that is important -witness his need to push
>WebObjects during an interview about becoming a billionaire due to
>ToyStory, a movie produced by a company that he bought, rather than a
>company he founded).

Actually, people should just take a look at PCs. What are PCs critized
most for by Macintosh users ? For their ancient, limiting architecture
(segmentation vs. flat memory, 640K barrier, too few registers, etc.),
that requires kludge after kludge to squeeze more performance out of
it. If Apple had stuck to the Aplle IIgs, they would have had to face
similar limitations.
-- 
Eric Doenges
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