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Leopard Lives and Kicks Vista's Butt
hm_murdock:
The problem with Apple and Adobe is the Patton/Montgomery thing. Like Patton said (at least in the film):
The difference between me and Montgomery is that I'll admit that I'm a primadonna.
Adobe has an unswerving 18-month product cycle. Hell or high water, it's 18Mos. Second, they have Software Company Syndrome. That is, "Mac users are a small segment, maybe they don't matter as much." Forget about the fact that the majority of their customers are Mac users. That can't matter. Only thing that matters is that market share.
As for killing Premiere on Mac: GOOD. I fucking hate that shitty ass garbage. Everybody I've ever known that used it has had the same problems. Randomly crashing, corruption of project files (even on clean close!), poor performance, worse interface than MS.
BTW, my shitty experiences were with 4 or 5 or something on Mac. All the other identical experiences were from people running 6 or whatever on Windows. So, it wasn't a bug with the version I was using, or a bug with the Mac version. Nope. Premiere SUCKS.
davidnix71:
If the API's were frozen in Panther up, then why do I see so much software offered in Version Tracker that 'requires' Tiger? If the software uses added features like Dashboard Widgets, then it may not matter that the API's haven't changed.
I also have software that will work on a G3, or G4 but not a G5 (VPC 6.1), and certainly won't work on a MacIntel. Guest OS supports a G5 and isn't expensive, but why buy something all over again? VPC 6.1 doesn't even properly identify my G4 mac cpu (the clock speed is !?!).
There is other software I have that works (or 'should' according to the writers) from Jag up. I bought Mellel and there is a Jag only version, no longer supported.
Even VLC asked for money (and got it) so they could test a G5 with their software.
WMD:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 ---If the API's were frozen in Panther up, then why do I see so much software offered in Version Tracker that 'requires' Tiger? If the software uses added features like Dashboard Widgets, then it may not matter that the API's haven't changed.
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I meant the other way: old apps won't stop working. New apps that use new feature will, of course, require the new OS. The API freezing in 10.3 would explain your broken Jaguar apps. Hopefully, that won't be happening again.
hm_murdock:
When a new Linux kernel is released or a version of GCC or whatever shows up and it breaks binaries, I don't hear people raising a stink about it. It's only when someone says "Hey, wow. This new version of OS X is going to be neat."
There's usually some jackass that has to crawl out of the woodwork to say "OMG OH NOES ITS TEH BAD!!!1" just to be a jerk. I don't mean that you're that person, davidnix... I'm just sayin'.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: hm_murdock ---When a new Linux kernel is released or a version of GCC or whatever shows up and it breaks binaries, I don't hear people raising a stink about it.
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Uh, yea, you don't have to pay for them..
Apps will use this Core Animation stuff and you'll need to get Panther to see them. How much work could it possibly be to port that to Tiger? Has that much changed..?
Whenever Qt introduces major new features like graphics view (which seems like a similar idea to core animation), which applications will depend on, noone raises a stink because noone will have any problems obtaining and upgrading to Qt 4.2.
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