Re: Apple firing on all cylinders

On Dec 30, 7:40 pm, "Maurice" <Maurice504...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know, but, sounds like an interesting concept.  Maybe for the same
reason Apple can't develope a new operating system.  OSX is eleven years
old. Time for something better than retreads.

Oh, my. Time flies.

But why break backwards compatibility?

PCs can run MS-DOS software from 1981.

Buy a current Mac, and it can't run software from 1984.

Yes, have all the exciting new features of OS X - and the current OS X
isn't behind Vista or Windows 7 in exciting new features, so what's
the problem - but they should have been integrated into the classic
Mac operating system - instead of access to older apps being limited
to people who upgraded from the old OS to OS X.

John Savard
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