Re: Apple AGAIN disowns loyal customers
- From: usenet@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul Mitchum)
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:03:57 -0800
Ian Gregory <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.mac.system.]
> On 2005-11-16, Paul Mitchum <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You and others came down on the guy with the old sound
> > files as a fool for expecting new software to understand old files. But
> > really, that expectation is not unreasonable, especially when the last
> > version of the system he used supported them.
>
> It is also reasonable for me to expect that the latest release of
> Mac OS X will not be unnecessarily bloated by including support for
> every file format that Apple has supported since the dawn of time.
I don't buy the argumenet that supporting System 7 sound files would,
necessarily, make OS X more 'bloated.'
> For this to be the case then legacy file formats do occasionally
> have to be dropped,
Well, given your assumptions, yes. One doesn't know if this is why Apple
dropped it or not, however. I doubt that's why.
> in which case there will always be a version of the system which does not
> support a certain file format even though the previous version did.
Again, I don't buy your assumptions. That's OK, though. You think it's
reasonable for Apple to drop the old sound file format, and I don't have
a problem with that.
> Of course this process should be managed carefully. Normally (based
> on my experience with Solaris) there would be a release where the
> old format is "deprecated" but still supported. This release would
> come with suitable migration tools and instructions to prepare for
> a subsequent version of the system where support is dropped.
>
> As others have said, it is irrelevent how old the file format
> is.
I'm the one who said that.
> What matters is the proportion of the current user base that use the
> format, and the degree of inconvenience they would experience in migrating
> their data to something current.
I don't disagree. My objection was to the many people who jumped on this
guy's back for expecting to be able to do something he's always been
able to do.
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