Shari, I agree, but I had a Mac Mini a year or so ago and Apple
continued to provide free updates for it all the way to - I think it
was 2.9, but may have been 2.8. because I stopped using it about a
month ago when I got my new MacIntel. I kind of wondered myself at
the length of the automatic updates I got for the Mini.
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 2, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Shari wrote:
Now this is something I think we need to worry about less than
having a "Classic" potential; since most people who have OSX are
going to be moving up to the latest due to the ease with which
Apple makes updating the OS. Or am I in the minority when I get
automatic updates from Apple on just about everything whenever
there is new software? I'd be willing to bet that there are many,
many fewer using OSX 2.8 than are using OS9.2.
Joe Wilkins
I don't worry about Classic anymore. Sales pretty much zeroed out
for it so I've slowly been phasing out my Classic apps.
10.2.8 however...... if I remember correctly, at the time I was
using that computer, Apple only gave out free OSX updates thru
10.2.8. If you wanted to upgrade past that, you had to pay again.
So I never did. I just eventually got a new MacPro :-) But
because the MacPro is of course Macintel, and LOTS of folks don't
have Macintel, I use the other computer for my non-Macintel
testing. And there encountered the error.
I know there are a lot of folks out there, non-techie folks, the
ones who are most likely to use my creations, who don't
automatically update to the latest and greatest OS unless it's free.
I don't know if Apple ever finally started giving out free updates
to boost 10.2.8 higher or not. THAT would be the question, then.
I couldn't upgrade that computer past 10.2.8 without paying again,
so there I stopped. I don't know if it's still stopped there or
not. But to me, a Universal build should work on all flavors of
OSX, not just the newest ones.
I'd like to get away from having more than one Macintosh download
to create, test and maintain.
Shari
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