On Jan 26, 2005, at 21:43, Skip Montanaro wrote:
Thanks for all the responses w.r.t. upgrading Mac OSX. My bad experience
was when migrating from 9->X on an older iMac. It couldn't have been more
than a few weeks after buying 10.1 that 10.2 came out. It just never dawned
on me at the time to do any sort of investigation of OSX release schedules.
The general rule is that as soon as you buy an Apple product, something better will come out before you'd like it to and you'll wish you had waited a few weeks.. unless of course you buy something as soon as its available for order, in which case you'll have to wait more than you'd like to receive it.
It is heartening to know that the release interval is lengthening as the
system stabilizes and that there should be better 10.3->10.4 compatibility.
I haven't paid any attention to the temporal timing of OSX releases and
wouldn't have any idea how to find info if I was so inclined to do so.
Compatibility -> In -> This -> Direction -> Was -> Never -> A -> Problem!
Someone suggested I was complaining about having to pay for upgrades.
That's not really it at all. I'm happy to pay Apple their due. They have
an excellent product. I was miffed that I paid my $99 (or whatever it was)
literally weeks before 10.2 came out. I think it would have been wise for
Apple to include a coupon for a free or discounted upgrade to 10.2. They
clearly knew its release was imminent.
Obviously they're not going to repackage boxes when they're about to clear them off the shelves. I think Apple *did* have a contingency for users that had very recently purchased the prior release. Did you ask them at the time?
Bob mentioned:
For Apple's own software (iTunes, Safari, etc.), they often support the
current release version minus one. Apple supports older operating
systems by providing security updates, etc.
In fact I just upgraded to iTunes 4.7.1 on my 10.2 system this evening, so I
know it's possible for Apple to continue support of applications on "old"
versions of the OS. I haven't seen a functional upgrade of Safari on that
OS in quite awhile though. I suspect it has something to do with the fact
that iTunes represents a very lucrative revenue stream for Apple, while
Safari doesn't.
Safari was a bad example, but I wouldn't expect any functional updates to 10.2 from here on out. It's very close to missing the mark for "current release version minus one", given that 10.4 is promised for the first half of this year. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to buy 10.3 now, because 10.4 is definitely more than a few weeks away, but you certainly wouldn't be getting "full value" from it because it's 15 months old (Oct 24 2003) already.
-bob
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