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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RE[3]: So....don't Upgrade....
by StephenBeDoper on Thu 5th Feb 2009 16:43
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Ok, do PowerPC adapter cards with in Intel Mac machines? No. Note it was you that brought that up.
See the word "arbitrarily" in the text you quoted? As in "based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something."
That's the total opposite of the example you gave - you're talking about incompatibilities between different CPU architectures. That's an intrinsic limitation, not an arbitrary one.
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"Since you're a fan of metaphors, it's like a buying a tower machine and finding later that the expansion slots are arbitrarily set not to work with cards newer than 2008."
Ok, do PowerPC adapter cards with in Intel Mac machines? No. Note it was you that brought that up.