Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Feb 2009 07:05 UTC
Apple has always been about moving forward, about pressing customers to buy the latest and greatest. Product pacing has been high in Cupertino (except for the Mac Mini, obviously), and this is obviously a good thing if you're an Apple bean counter. Most Apple fans more or less accept this planned obsolescence without question, but the company may have just gone a little too far.
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They implied that PPC support was not going to disappear, that it had a long future ahead of it. They made a big song and dance about fat binaries and the like. Everything the said made it seem like PPC had a long future. Of course they never came out and blatantly said it would be dropped after 3 years. I am sure the ambiguity of what they were saying was deliberate. They were just like your stereotypical sleazy politician deliberately employing ambiguity.
Its obvious why they did this. They did not want to lose out on sales.
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"They implied that PPC support was not going to disappear, that it had a long future ahead of it. They made a big song and dance about fat binaries and the like. Everything the said made it seem like PPC had a long future. Of course they never came out and blatantly said it would be dropped after 3 years. I am sure the ambiguity of what they were saying was deliberate. They were just like your stereotypical sleazy politician deliberately employing ambiguity."
Actually, if you bought your G5 less than three years ago they DO support it. They NEVER said that ALL software that is available three years from now will run on it.
Supporting something and saying that the latest and greatest version of ALL apps was going to run on it. Microsoft can't say that either. Such as any computer bought 2.5 years ago being able to run Vista Ultimate. Not everything will run. People complain about that all over the internet about this and how they went back to Windows XP.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
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Where did Apple ever make a commitment to a certain time period? Provide the information. Discussions on Mac boards over the internet came to pretty much the conclusion of: get the G5 PPC if you really need it for work and that the performance is crucial for work immediately or hold off to get an Intel one once released.
This filtered back through the forums into articles, online buying advice etc even resellers were advising customers to hold off their purchases. etc. It wasn't as though a unsure buyer couldn't pull on resources to quantify as to whether purchasing a PPC G5 monster at that moment was a good investment. I don't know about you, but I tend to RESEARCH my purchases before slapping down several thousand dollars.
If the general concensus of pundits, forum goers, resellers and so forth is to hold off for the Intel release - you know what? I'd take their advice because to me the several thousand dollars is worth a pretty penny. If the advice from people who are 9/10 correct in their prediction, I'm going to trust them more than I trust Apple - whose sole purpose for pushing the PPC is to maintain the high margin profit stream.