On Jun 2, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> You can have the luxury of breaking that when you're not the biggest
> business software vendor in the world. Different for Apple who operate
> largely outside the corporate space.
What Apple did is deprecate a system: they said that they were
changing, and did so over a several-year period. The switch from 0x0 to PowerPC
lasted about 6 years; the switch from OS9 to OS X lasted 8 years, and from
PowerPC to Intel-based chips about 6 years. In the interim periods, both old
and new designs were fully supported. Nobody got "cut off", and even the
largest companies don't use 7-year-old desktops.
That's the way to do things; supporting legacy stuff in your latest and
greatest system just doesn't make sense.
-- Ed Leafe
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