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Originally posted by CharlesS: I'm guessing you haven't been around long enough to remember the System 6 -> System 7 transition then. System 7 broke nearly everything. Close to none of the System 6 software worked on it, especially games. System 7 broke apps left and right. And it didn't even have a Classic environment to keep the old stuff working like X does. It was a much worse situation than OS 9 -> OS X. But Apple didn't waste manpower then by continuing to support System 6 for all eternity. |
Good post and good point. I was doing pre-press at the time with all the Aldus, Adobe and Quark apps and all our extra DAs that we needed for font management, RIP checkers, file organisation etc broke with System 7 until they came in a new box with the little "System 7 Savy" sticker on it. Being pre-press, we were quite conservative about the whole thing and it took us more than a year before we had finally moved everything over to System 7.
What people also forget is that Apple's marketshare was much bigger then, around 15% IIRC, and there was much more incentive for developers to speedily update apps. Today though, I think it is only due to OSX that Apple is still here.