Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS?
Date	2015-08-13 19:38 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-08-13, Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-08-13, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In article <1m935ra.nmwq64oo8q8mN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
>>> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>>>> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I know that a lot of software stopped working between 10.6 and 10.7
>>>>> because of the removal of Rosetta from OS X, but, pray tell, what
>>>>> were the disastrous effects of going from 10.9 to 10.10? I just
>>>>> googled for "Mac OS X Yosemite software compatibility" and saw very
>>>>> few reports of problems, most probably from the early days of the release.
>>>>> Or are you just indulging in hyperbole?
>>>> 
>>>> Erilar skipped 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9. She persists in blaming Yosemite for
>>>> being unable to run abandoned PowerPC applications (e.g. AppleWorks and
>>>> Color It!) despite being told repeatedly that the same applications
>>>> would have also not worked on the three preceding major OS X versions.
>>> 
>>> Wow, yeah, it was a huge discussion point when 10.7 was announced and
>>> everyone realized that it wouldn't include Rosetta. It was thanks to
>>> that discussion that I immediately went out and bought a new iMac with
>>> 10.6, which I'm still using. I can't believe that anyone who reads this
>>> group regularly could have missed that major change in OS X. As you say,
>>> those software issues have zero to do with Yosemite.
>> 
>> It has more to do with hard-headed rejection of anything new. ; )
>
> Make that hard -headed rejection of downgrades.

If that were the case, you wouldn't have upgraded the OS in the first
place. Instead, you upgraded and then resisted change at every turn.

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  Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-08 14:30 -0400
    Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-08-08 19:10 +0000
      Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-08 19:25 +0000
      Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-08 15:37 -0400
        Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-08-08 21:45 +0100
        Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-08-08 17:17 -0500
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            Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-08-09 14:11 +0000
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                Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-11 18:14 -0400
                Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-08-12 16:54 +0000
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                Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-08-13 14:58 +0000
                Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-13 15:16 +0000
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                Re: Why won't Apple update apps w/o updating the OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-14 13:48 +0000
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