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> On Apr 4, 2017, at 6:47 PM, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Counter-argument: One word. Apple. > > (Not that I am an Apple fan by any means, but Apple have for decades > been highly successful making zero effort at backwards compatibility. I > speak from experience, running iOS 9 on an iPhone 4s... the 8 can't come > soon enough -- and that is exactly why Apple have been successful) Yes, Apple has broken backwards compatibility more than once. It was necessary to do to keep up with the inevitable evolution of cpus and storage. But that is not the reason for their success. Their success is based on everything Just Working, which they accomplish through total control of the hardware. They are the antithesis of Debian, which wants to run on anything. Cathy
