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It does that, but it seems to me that you've depicted an Apple that does not try to retain its customers, but instead expects commitment on their part.
I think I've depicted an Apple that tries to retain its customers by offering them a steady stream of fancy new toys and software. (And an exciting new...
And that spells 'platform zealot' to me. :D
Pretty much all of these guys are going to care about compatibility, though. Not as much as your enterprise with its bespoke apps, but they'd still care.
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The prospect that the entire MAc userbase is composed of various shades oif GreyCloud is certainly enough to give me pause!
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It seems to me hat normal users would require some appeasing, and that Rosetta is an attempt to do so.
You're buttuming that offering backwards compatibility is a better way to maintain customers than offering great new stuff for them to buy all the time...
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They have, haven't they?
This is all quite true; and I don't think the situation has changed much, nor that Apple is interested in changing it.
I agree that with OS 9 in 2000, they were in a desparate place and needed to fix it *right now*; I can see why then did it as fast as they could.
But why rush the Intel transition *now*?
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Oh, I see. I do that too on the Mac, but on Windows I use the start menu for both.
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