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Re: 10.2.8 and leopard
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Re: 10.2.8 and leopard


  • Subject: Re: 10.2.8 and leopard
  • From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:05:09 -0800

On Nov 28, 2007 2:49 PM, Ladd Van Tol <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:50 PM, David Dunham wrote:
>
> > On 28 Nov 2007, at 09:15, Alastair Houghton wrote:
> >
> >> Are you certain you need 10.2.8 compatibility?  Very few users are
> >> still using 10.2 (indeed, so few that Steve Jobs boasted about that
> >> fact at WWDC), so the consequences of dropping 10.2 support will in
> >> most cases be minimal.
> >
> >
> > Who can say? Apple never releases hard data. I wish they would. (Or
> > give away 10.3 at the very least.)
> >
> > I'd rather drop support due to a technical reason, rather than "it's
> > a pain to build for."
>
> Although it may not exactly match your target user base, many people
> find the Omni Group's software update statistics to be useful:
>
> http://update.omnigroup.com/

Of course you need to consider that many of their products no longer
run 10.2 so the numbers are biased.

With that said... I see no compelling reason to support 10.2 or
earlier at this point.

Anyway this is going off topic for this list.

-Shawn
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