Hi Paul, Fact is, Apple's software stability is the result of what used to be Apple's insistence that software coders follow Apple's coding methods (I don't know what else to call them) and to do it "by the numbers." In other words, do it exactly according to Apple's "cookbook" -- their rules and such -- which is the way Apple themselves wrote software code for applications and utilities.
If the third-party developers did it as Apple did it, they were guaranteed to come up with a successful piece of software. Many, perhaps most, followed Apples lead, and wrote their code just as Apple said to do it. All software worked well, gave few if any surprises, and the layout and features seemed quite "familiar" right out of the box, to any Apple/Mac user. There were mavericks who balked, and said, "Who is Apple to tell ME how to write code? I've been successfully writing software for years and years." It was usually their software that exhibited bugs, crashed at odd times, and was generally unreliable and a bugger to use. Developers like that didn't last long, or decided to write for DOS or some other O/S. Apple was too strict. Seems that's pretty much over. The Apple Macintosh HFS/HFS+ operating system is a dead end street. Obsolete. Now, some form of UNIX is all. One more step toward a rather universal operating system that will work on myriad machines, no matter who developed it. So I see it. keith whaley Paul Stenquist wrote: > > graywolf wrote: > > > Much of the reason for Apples software stability is the Apple > > philosophy, "We support Apple hardware only". Where other brands of > > computers may have almost any hardware from any manufacture in it Apple > > only has to support Apple hardware that simplifies the task immensely. > Damn. And on my G4 Apple, I'm using an Epson scanner, an Epson printer, > an ACOM firewire drive, a couple of IBM SCSI drives, and four PCI cards > from several manufacturers. Now you tell me that Apple doesn't support > anything but Apple hardware? Maybe I'm just lucky, because all of my > gear runs flawlessly.
