[X4U] Apple Software changes to drive hardware sales

[David Ledger]

At 09:07 -0700 7/10/13, Shawn King wrote:
>On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Ken Johnson <kenjohnso at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I'm no blind worshipper of Steve Jobs. I regard a lot of changes 
>>he made in his last ten years as undesireable (like the replacement 
>>of some Unix techniques and the OS X - iOS merge). What I really 
>>deplore is using software changes to force hardware sales. He 
>>started that and it's being continued.
>
>No - he didn't. It's been going on as long as there have been computers.

It's always happened for technology reasons, but Apple are creating 
situations that are much worse than normal purely by policy decisions.

I can't upgrade the TomTom s/w on my Palm because only the newer 
Palms have the power to run the later versions. Unfortunate, but 
realistic.

I can't run most apps on my iPhone because it won't run the latest 
iOS. Fair enough when there never was a version that would run on my 
iOS version - but Apple only allow the latest version of the app on 
the store, and you can't get them from anywhere else. If the apps I 
want were loaded back when my wife used it as her phone then I'd have 
the apps now. That's an Apple Policy decision that that means I need 
to buy hardware. That's wrong, and the only case I've come across.


>>  If I were ever in the market for a Tablet or a Smartphone I would 
>>buy second best rather than Apple simply because of that.
>
>Buying "second best" because you're pissed at a dead guy is idiotic.

That would be, but buying second best because a company policy 
severely limits the fully effective working life of the best is not.

David


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