Re: Why is Palm telling people to stop buying their product?

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:24:33 GMT, AaronJ <noemail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Apparently Win98 doesn't do everything you want. Isn't your rant basically that
>you want to use a new Palm but can't... ;)

Does anyone else see the irony in one Usenet reader in 2006 picking on
another's persistent appreciation of (useful) antiquated technology?

Perhaps what the writer meant was that Win98-compatible software
serves practical needs, but it can't compete with what might be
characterized as planned obsolescence. ...or not.

He's saying, I want the spiffy lime green doors on my refrigerator.
Why's the new color scheme only fit for hinge assemblies on newer
freezers? Manufacturers could fit these things for my perfectly
acceptable frig or offer a retrofit kit for my frig if they really
wanted to! Jerks.

Of course, at some point users must see that advancing technology and
market expectation mandates upgrades that make keeping newer products
backward compatible with aging systems impracticable (if not silly).

I mean, with a suitable investment of time and imagination I might fit
your horse carriage with a torque sensitive limited slip differential
and improved torsional vibration dampers. Should I? Is there a big
market there? Should the world care that your horse's withers chafe?

OTOH, diehard aficionados of aging technology can always seek markets
where make-do efforts and off-market advancements still go on. The
Amish, Haiti, Bangladesh? Maybe Bob Dog really loves that horse!

It seems I have a harder time every year finding quality parts for my
Imsai 8080. And, does anyone care? Well, not Aaron. That's certain.

@~
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