on 9/26/01 3:56 PM, Shawn King at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you're a web developer, you shouldn't be using OS X regardless.
>
> If you are trying to make money using your machine, you shouldn't upgrade
> until all the apps you use on a daily basis are OS X ready.
Heh, I'd agree.
90% of the people out there don't need more than a 300mhz g3 to do their
work, that doesn't stop them from buying/using what apple sells... Because
it's new, and its cool. People want to use macOS X, but it isn't something
they can jump into lightly, like purchasing a normal operating system
update... That's the guys point.
But I think you're going against what you said in your last message, namely
"Who says you have to buy them all at once?"
The guy has a good point... Maybe not a point that can be helped, but most
mac users are going to have to upgrade all their software (you know apple
and adobe are taking this into account and licking their lips), which is
=expensive=. It just all adds up. I have to budget more than $1k a year just
to keep up with software upgrades, and it hurts the pocketbook after awhile.
MacOS X is so cool, but there were very, very few apps that couldn't be
carbonized by this date. There WERE some api's that some very specific
developers needed in order to move their apps, but they are few and far
between and generally pretty specialized.
The move to PPC was so, so much nicer. Yes, some apps held out and you had
to run at half speed waiting for newer versions that would speed things up.
But even adobe released a plug in which sped up most functions for
photoshop, etc. There was an upgrade cost involved with a lot of apps, but
it was fairly minor ($60 here, $99 there, etc) and the new versions with
full support came really quickly.
I think a LOT more people would have been happier if adobe had just taken
photoshop v6, recompiled into carbon and released the upgrade for $49, and
the same with their other apps. Instead we are all going to be sitting and
waiting so that everything stays in sync with their PC product schedule, and
they can hopefully guarantee a big roll-out of 6.5 or so... As until
everything is there, just having one or two of the apps is worthless.
Ah well, I guess that is why adobe is either losing or has stagnated
marketshare for almost every product they make now.
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