I hope this doesn't become a trend - Eupfhoria

Gee, I hope developers don't take advantage of the new developments in the new OSs too. /Sarcasm

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Saturday, December 24 2005 @ 01:13 PM PST

I hope this doesn't become a trend - KeesW

wake up and smell the coffee friend. Once Intel Macs are released (probably a matter of days now), most apps will be 10.4 and up so they can be compiled as universal binaries. Tiger has some problems, but as of 10.4.3 things have acyually been very good for me.

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Sunday, January 01 2006 @ 11:34 PM PST

it's been and is the trend - sjk

Anyone who's paying attention realizes It's not uncommon for certain Mac software first developed after a major OS release to only be supported with that release and sometimes just one or two after. When 10.5 is released you can bet a certain percentage of apps will drop 10.3 support soon afterwards, just like they dropped 10.2 support after 10.4 was released. And new "10.5-only" apps will appear.

The compatibility of apps with previous releases has been steadily increasing as OS X has matured, with 10.4 (and 10.3.9, on occasion) being the first that many developers would prefer being the baseline requirement. I know plenty of apps being held back by 10.3, with developers waiting for 10.5 to drop support for it.

Frankly, I think too much backwards compatibility for too long stifles certain software.

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Monday, January 02 2006 @ 10:06 AM PST

I hope this doesn't become a trend - mtcon

EVERY version of the OS has had some problems including Panther, Jaguar, etc, etc. Following your reasoning one would expect software to be backward compatible so people who didn't like 10.x could run it in 9.x or maybe 8.x or 7.x. You need to face up to the realities of progress.

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Sunday, January 29 2006 @ 05:44 PM PST

It may be the trend, but in a way he's right... - m-bomb

I have tried both Panther and Tiger (I waited until 10.4.3) a lot, on separate volumes. It's amazing how I never have any problems with 10.3,9, with my devices working, like firewire drives and OCR, with copying, with networks, with finding files (including invisible ones; with Tiger you have to use slow third party programs to find them), etc. No strange kernel panics. And there is a development trend I don't like at all at Apple and that is toward "candying" the interface (i.e. Tiger not searching for invisible files, not telling you, as it's copying a large amount of files, WHAT it's copying, as Panther does, not allowing you to customize system preferences, etc.). The enduser is getting less and less information about, and less and less control over, what is happening at a system level, from the GUI. Supposedly, this gives us a better "mac experience", but for those of us who know what we're doing it's a real pain in the you know what. You could say "Use Terminal". But I shouldn't have to do that for such basic tasks.

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Sunday, March 12 2006 @ 03:16 AM PST

It may be the trend, but in a way he's right... - MatrixPT

I agree with m-bomb. Tiger is useless to me and I actually gave up full-time Macintosh consulting because of it. I cannot support a fundamentally flawed operating system. If Apple were doing their job properly instead of just 'candying up' the OS then we wouldn't even NEED tools like iTattle. However I cannot even use iTattle because it (supposedly) needs features only present in Tiger. Developers used to write software themselves, not rely on most of their code being supplied by the operating system.
I HATE Windows but about 99% of the software available for Windows still works with Windows 98. However an alarming number of Mac developers are now providing Tiger Only software. When a developer ditches everybody who hasn't upgraded their OS in the past year then that is pretty poor. Very few people upgrade their computers every year, and people who are stung even ONCE by not being able to run current software on their Mac until they upgrade may just decide to go and buy a cheaper Windows computer. It isn't good for the Mac community at all.
Please note: This is not an attack on iTattle. I can't even use it so I can't do a commentary or review. It is a general rant about Apple going backwards and writing their own version of Microsoft Windows, with all the associated problems plus more.

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Sunday, June 11 2006 @ 11:05 AM PDT