[X4U] "Backwards Compatibility"

[zapcat]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Christopher Collins wrote:

> What a load of absolute crap this line is!
> It is "backwards compatibility" that always limits innovation.
>


IMO, the actual "load of crap" is that backwards compatibility limits 
innovation. Software publishers don't make money off people who happily 
stay put with the software they already paid for.

same goes for hardware manufacturers.

the solution? manufacture a need.

In this case, that means, make it so that last year's hardware, 
eventually, will stop working, in whole or in part, stop being 
compatible or threatens to leave its user outmoded, outclassed, out 
gunned and out gunned.

Don't buy into that subtext? Then do some reading on the history of 
"marketing" in this country.

zc