Re: Update question

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Update question
Date	2016-04-27 19:07 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-04-27, MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016/04/26 1:38 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> there were significant enough changes that an
>> update to iPhoto was required.
>
> Why? That's what I wonder. I even asked the question, did it forget how 
> to display JPGs. A frivolous question of course, but what's the real 
> reason? And why should that be? I even considered writing Steve about it.

Very likely for features other than displaying JPG images.

>> A whopping what? $40? How much did you pay for the OS upgrade, BTW?
>
> $100.

So you were fine with paying for an OS upgrade, but not for an app
upgrade to maintain compatibility.

> And everything it did for me was break an application that Apple 
> gave me and then took away! I got it primarily because I knew it was to 
> be the last PPC OS and I bought it the last day it was available and it 
> was the only copy they had. Whew! Just in time to break iPhoto, which 
> wasn't worth $40 dollars to me.

Buyer's remorse. You could have downgraded back to the original OS.

>> Nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to install a newer
>> operating system.
>
> Sorry, everybody but Android does that, especially Apple. If I hadn't 
> install that newer OS, I never would've had another!

You're not making sense. Nobody forced you to upgrade. And nobody forced
you to continue using the upgraded OS after you found out your old
version of iPhoto didn't work in it.

>> Your expectation that Apple maintain 100% backward compatibility is
>> unrealistic
>
> I have no such expectation. 

...except when it comes to iPhoto...

> My only expectation was that I would continue to have an app that was
> given to me. 

You did (and still do) still have the version that was given to you.

> IOW, if a new OS were to break that app (which it did), I should be
> given the updated version. 

Unrealistic. The new OS cost money, and so did the updated app for that
new OS.

> Otherwise, what they gave me should've been designated a Trial or 
> Limited or Temporary version of something that I'd need to buy to get 
> the Full version.

Nonsense. You had the full version.

> Did the people who paid $40 for iLife on PPC have to pay it again to
> get the Intel version? (I don't know the answer to this question.)

People have paid for many major revisions/releases of iLife for many
years now.

>> especially knowing that Apple's operating systems and software are
>> historically a moving target.
>
> Hey! You just told me nobody put a gun to my head.

And it's true, yes.

> I told you that getting that last PPC OS was my only way of getting
> extra mileage. But you knew that.

Still not seeing the gun to your head...

>> If you want an operating system that puts backward compatibility over
>> innovation and all else, Windows is your best choice.
>
> I think Linux may be that best choice. Win 10 couldn't even run for me 
> without breaking itself. Didn't even add any new software or anything; 
> it just broke all by itself.

Well, go forth and Linuxify then. : )

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