My swan song Goodbye CW
and who (or how many) do you think had a 'small PC' around 1980 ? 
90 percent of todays market simply didn't exist back then...
but this not the point here - Apple's customer base has been the most loyal one you can imagine.
And this customer base gave (and most of it still give) a sh*t on OSX - Apple's 90% share in publishing would immediately switch to it if, yes IF there WAS an application under the unix-hood that made their business more simple, effective and reliable.
Exactly those were the arguments that originally sold them to Apple.
And because the killer-app doesn't exist Apple simply forces to use certain versions of their OS.
Imagine you buy an Intel mobo, but it will only boot with XP, service pack I-dunno-what... even though Linux would run, Win2K or Win98 etc - you know it because you've installed (or used) one of the other OSes on the same hardware.
What do think would happen if Intel came out with such a joke ?
They tell you OS-9 is outdated - that's not exactly correct - it WAS outdated...
If Apple had invested the same resources they've put into OSX into improving OS-9, we'd have an almost perfect (workstation) OS - and could use our G4s and what came after ad infinitum...
cheers, Tom
ps: to not loose focus on the original topic, which contained some complaints about CWA's customer 'unfriendly' behaviour, how does Apple's 'politic' look under this point of view ?
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2005-02-20 07:50 ]</font>
90 percent of todays market simply didn't exist back then...
but this not the point here - Apple's customer base has been the most loyal one you can imagine.
And this customer base gave (and most of it still give) a sh*t on OSX - Apple's 90% share in publishing would immediately switch to it if, yes IF there WAS an application under the unix-hood that made their business more simple, effective and reliable.
Exactly those were the arguments that originally sold them to Apple.
And because the killer-app doesn't exist Apple simply forces to use certain versions of their OS.
Imagine you buy an Intel mobo, but it will only boot with XP, service pack I-dunno-what... even though Linux would run, Win2K or Win98 etc - you know it because you've installed (or used) one of the other OSes on the same hardware.
What do think would happen if Intel came out with such a joke ?
They tell you OS-9 is outdated - that's not exactly correct - it WAS outdated...
If Apple had invested the same resources they've put into OSX into improving OS-9, we'd have an almost perfect (workstation) OS - and could use our G4s and what came after ad infinitum...
cheers, Tom
ps: to not loose focus on the original topic, which contained some complaints about CWA's customer 'unfriendly' behaviour, how does Apple's 'politic' look under this point of view ?
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2005-02-20 07:50 ]</font>