Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
- Subject: Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
- From: Andrew Satori <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:27:51 -0400
On Jul 18, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 18.07.2005 um 16:41 schrieb Andrew Satori:
[...] broadband speeds become the norm. This is kinda like the
people that are still holding onto floppy drives :-)..
You make one mistake here. While it's easy to purchase a modern
storage device and to get it at home about everywhere in the world,
broadband often isn't even an option.
I'm painfully aware of that limit, being as I rely on a Satellite
link at one site, but as I said, VERY soon that limitation goes
away. BTW, were you aware that in the US, the Fair Access rules mean
that a telco is required to eat the cost of running lines to provide
fair access, meaning that a T1 to a remote location, the telco must
pay the cost of the lines :-), just an odd little tidbit.
Let's take an example...
Napster To Go, ... music stops playing because it can't phone home
to verify that your account remains active.
Windows & Office activation, ...
... software vendors are forced to support aged OSes bugs, warts
and all. ...
... How long has Windows XP SP2 been available? How many companies
still won't deploy it? ...
None of your examples are bound to broadband. They require a few
minutes dial-up at best.
Yes, this is true, but it's not going to hold true when longhorn
ships (if it does, but that is a whole different set of issues).
I have one customer that still has Windows 95 machines deployed, ...
According to your words you should drop him immediately. What stops
you from doing so?
I haven't dropped the customer, but I do not support his older
machines (I don't support anything older than Windows 2000 SP4 at
this point, and I'm dropping that in October).
Huh, it tends to get off-topic. For me, I still consider dial-up as
a key technology to Apple's traditional user base: the non-techie
user. The software update departement should recognise this.
Dial-Up remains a key technology, on that I don't disagree, I
disagree that catering to people that are unwilling to leave the
machine on over night to download and installer a 40mb system update
to keep a system secure and current is a good idea.
I remember downloading 32 floppy disk images over 28.8 dialups during
the Windows 95 beta stages once every two weeks, or the nearly 60
floppies that early Slackware Linux distro's needed. I'm sorry, but
I'm not buying into a need for Apple to cater to people unwilling to
update. The infrastructure is there, and if they need that update to
run a piece of new software, so be it. I think it's a good idea on
Apple's part. That is really all I wanted to get across.
Andy
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