Taryn wrote:
And let's count the number of times PC owners just went out and bought new PCs/ Windows/msWord/Office etc., just because their old PCs were so full of virii and spyware, that they just gave up on them. Get real. PC owners buy more computers, more often. They keep paying for the same crappy software over and over again (win95, win98, ME, XP, Norton AV, Office 200xx) because they've bought into some bizarre belief system. (Hmmm... kinda like Bush voters...get fired, get children sent to war, get taxed, get screwed, vote for Bush again.)
Whoa, easy there! Talk about belief systems! Not everyone is the same, and not every PC product is junk. (And only about half of us voted for Bush, but that's another story. ;-) Most computer users upgrade hardware periodically to get more power and to run additional, more demanding applications. I bought a new machine a year or so ago to do video editing, among other things, that my previous (Win 98SE) machine was unsuited for. I tend to get a new machine on every _other_ major release, so there is typically a factor of 5 to 10 in performance boost. But I still run Word 97. And I still run programs from the 1995 timeframe, just because I prefer the simplicity of the older version to the (useless to me) options of newer versions. I appreciate having the choice about whether to upgrade an application or not, particularly if the old version of the application does all that I need it to do. If an application that I use is enhanced with some new feature that I consider worthwhile for me, then I may choose to upgrade--when I want, not synchronized with my next platform upgrade. I was pointing out that Apple has chosen to periodically scrape off all the old software and force users to start over if they want to move to a higher performance platform. -michael 8-voice music synthesizer using NadaNet networking! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/