Bitey said:
This isn’t right, Apple still supported tiger up until about 2 months ago. So technically they aren’t much different from MS in that regard, often times the reason Apple drops support for out of date OS is that they change so much in new OS’s that things no longer work, like for example from Tiger to Leopard, what was .Mac became MobileMe, .Mac was an internal system designed to work within Tiger, when they made the change to MobileMe, hey guess what *edited* in Tiger and .Mac started breaking and stopped working. So instead of beating the dead horse and continuously having to gift people free *edited*, they just stopped supporting it.
Not to flame or anything but this isn’t really an explaination, it’s an excuse. When Microsoft continues to support an OS they release updates and features as though it were still a primary OS whereas Apple only releases critical security updates. You think there’s a lot in common between XP and Windows7? From an update and core-foundation standpoint they have absolutely nothing in common. If MS were like Apple, there wouldn’t have been an SP3, they wouldn’t still be coding DirectX patches to make it compatible with new games, and they wouldn’t be making all their newest software compatible with it.
inb4 you argue otherwise bear in mind that Final Cut Pro 7 requires 10.5.6 to install.
Bitey said:
I’m with all of you though, you won’t catch me gaming on a Mac unless it’s just all I have at the time. For what I do as a career (editing, directing, sound work), I will always choose Mac, simply because the Final Cut Pro Suite of applications are fantastic and nothing released on Windows can touch the functionality or ease of use on it.
inb4 Adobe.. I used it and it actually is almost just like FCP, one thing that bugged me and they may have fixed it since then, but you can’t drag and drop blocks of footage like you can in FCP. So while they are similar I still just prefer FCP.
Even the free video editor in Vista/Win7 allows you to do that, I can’t imagine it’s not a feature in Adobe CS5.
Bitey said:
At the end of the day I hate Apple as a company for how they treat their employees, customers, and lies told daily.
Their in-store support implies that their users are idiots and from what i’ve heard they treat their customers like them too. It’s really sad. They have the potential to do so much for their customers yet ruin it with elitism. How they treat 3rd party “allies” is downright contemptable. When they upgraded from OS7 to OS8 it was solely done to invalidate the licensing for all their 3rd party manufacturers so they’d have to renew them for the new OS. Like they had the 7.x update patch ready to deploy and said “hey lets make this a new OS instead”.