[X4U] 10.5 instead of 10.6

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Application developers have had more than enough time to adapt to the slight differences between L and SL. Bear in mind they had access (or should have, if they really cared) to Developer versions of SL long before the mainstream release. Any application that *still* doesn't work properly with SL obviously doesn't really care so is effectively dead ...

cheers Chris

On 10 Feb 2010, at 10:03pm, zapcat wrote:

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> On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
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>> Nonsense. Its more than ready. Its not SL's fault if there are some applications out there that require ancient obsoletel (i.e. Apple talk) technology ...
> 
> 
> that is one viewpoint. However, most people don't buy a Mac so that they can stare at it and drool, basking in the glow of how cool it might be in theory.
> 
> Most people buy a Mac to do real work. So, if an OS "breaks" a bunch of apps, that doesn't make the OS "modern" and the broken apps "obsolete."
> 
> It simply means that the new OS is not production-ready. Apple itself has essentially admitted that Snow Leopard will have to evolve over time, as any OS or revision does.
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> What makes the most sense to me, and what I have done is this: create a Snow Leopard parition, and continue to have partitions for other OS X versions in which everything works. As Snow updaters are released. and application revisions are released, you can add them over time and end up with a functional, production-ready install.
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> Not one that's mostly ready, or "ready in theory," if only all the other developers would simply snap-to and fix their apps to work with Snow.
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> zc
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