re: dead (was Re: Faster List Checking)
re: dead (was Re: Faster List Checking)
- Subject: re: dead (was Re: Faster List Checking)
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:19:50 +0100
On Thu, 29 May 2003 21:58:34 -0700, Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
wrote:
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I bought a new 17" PowerBook. It's *very* nice, and fast.
Yes, I've observed that behaviour in one I was briefly loaned.
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>If anyone here pretends that 9 is gone they're kidding themselves.
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It's dead, Jim.
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Pushing up Daisies.
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Waiting for a train that will never come.
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<http://homepage.mac.com/stattenf/FutureOfMacOS9/iMovieTheater2.html>
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A recent survey of downloads of a popular utility program show an 84%
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usage of the most recent version of OS X and 8% of other versions of X.
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All versions of OS 9 totaled 7%. I think that says it pretty clearly.
Umm, just to point out - downloads don't demonstrate usage. The 9-using
folk won't download something for X, because it won't run on their system,
and it's likely that enhancements for the utility won't be available for 9
(hence no upgrade pressure); or that the enhancements for 9 are minimal
compared to those for X. (Now Jon's going to say what the utility is and
completely prove me wrong...) Either way, there's less impetus for the
9-users to grab something.
But 9 persists. It's the tyranny of the installed base; even though Apple
users move more swiftly through OS updates because most of them are
consumers (and so lords of their own domain, including the "IT" function),
there are still a lot who aren't going ot upgrade, and especially change,
because it is a monumental pain. In my other life as a journalist, I've
managed to persuade the IT guys to let me have X co-installed OMM at work.
But translating the dozens of little scripts I've got to do this and that
is not trivial. As with any OS change, *not* doing it is a whole lot
easier. And many people will put off the hard part until they utterly,
completely, must. Rather as a lot of Y2K work didn't really roll until 1999.
For instance, my household is 50% X, 50% 9, and I think I'll get my wife to
give up 9 when there are no machines working in the house which support it,
which won't be for a long time - multiple years, most likely. When I
upgrade next Jan/Feb (new notebooks?) she'll probably grab my iBook, which
being 2001 vintage, will boot in 9.
9 may have been declared dead, but it's still running round the farmyard
with a hell of a lot of vigour.
Charles
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