I wrote to Tim Cook, using snail mail, and, much to my surprise, I received a follow up phone call from Apple HQ in Sydney Australia. I politely threw my weight around a bit, and was assured of two things..
1. My comments would be reported to Mr. Cook,
and
2. Rossetta was dead.
If lots of people wrote to Mr. Cook, especially posting hard copy, may be Apple would change their mind.
Here is (a slightly edited version) of my letter..
If you do use it, please delete any bits that are not true for you..
Karl
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Subject:- Include Rosetta in Lion, and, also Classic. Otherwise I cannot move to Lion
Dear Mr. Cook,
I have been an Apple user since about 1991.
I implore you to re-introduce both Rosetta and Classic into Lion.
You need to consider that the effort and cost of migrating from Snow Leopard to Lion is comparable to the effort in migrating to Windows 7!
Please don’t write back to me telling me that this is against corporate policy, instead, consider the following:-
Right now, I cannot move to Lion because there are many, many applications that I rely upon on a weekly basis that were purchased for a G4 Powerbook. As an example of the migration issues, consider my problems with Eudora. It took me about 2 days to move my Eudora data to Apple Mail, and, since I had some 250 filters, this was only possible because of an obscure app that will not run under Lion!
I also have hundreds of Powerpoint and Word documents that will not open under the latest versions of these applications. However, on my G4 Powerbook, I could open them in the OS 9 versions, and progressively update the documents until they could be read by a version of Powerpoint which runs under Snow Leopard.
Sadly, I have many other applications installed under OS 9 that will not run under the latest (intel) versions of OS X, and applications installed under G4 versions of OS X that will not run without Rosetta. Given the potential cost and effort associated with migrating them to Lion, I simply cannot justify the money or the effort.
Mr. Cook, I was seriously impressed by the way in which all my OS 7 and OS 9 applications would run under the G4 versions of OS X. This potentially saved me thousands of dollars!
Imagine the impact in a corporate environment? Hard nosed CIO’s may attempt to assess the cost of migrating from early versions of OS X to Lion, and conclude that its about the same as migrating to Windows 7 or 8.
Neither of us want that!
In the meantime, I have kept my G4 Powerbook, and use it from time to time to resolve my problems.
1. My comments would be reported to Mr. Cook,
and
2. Rossetta was dead.
If lots of people wrote to Mr. Cook, especially posting hard copy, may be Apple would change their mind.
Here is (a slightly edited version) of my letter..
If you do use it, please delete any bits that are not true for you..
Karl
....................................
Subject:- Include Rosetta in Lion, and, also Classic. Otherwise I cannot move to Lion
Dear Mr. Cook,
I have been an Apple user since about 1991.
I implore you to re-introduce both Rosetta and Classic into Lion.
You need to consider that the effort and cost of migrating from Snow Leopard to Lion is comparable to the effort in migrating to Windows 7!
Please don’t write back to me telling me that this is against corporate policy, instead, consider the following:-
Right now, I cannot move to Lion because there are many, many applications that I rely upon on a weekly basis that were purchased for a G4 Powerbook. As an example of the migration issues, consider my problems with Eudora. It took me about 2 days to move my Eudora data to Apple Mail, and, since I had some 250 filters, this was only possible because of an obscure app that will not run under Lion!
I also have hundreds of Powerpoint and Word documents that will not open under the latest versions of these applications. However, on my G4 Powerbook, I could open them in the OS 9 versions, and progressively update the documents until they could be read by a version of Powerpoint which runs under Snow Leopard.
Sadly, I have many other applications installed under OS 9 that will not run under the latest (intel) versions of OS X, and applications installed under G4 versions of OS X that will not run without Rosetta. Given the potential cost and effort associated with migrating them to Lion, I simply cannot justify the money or the effort.
Mr. Cook, I was seriously impressed by the way in which all my OS 7 and OS 9 applications would run under the G4 versions of OS X. This potentially saved me thousands of dollars!
Imagine the impact in a corporate environment? Hard nosed CIO’s may attempt to assess the cost of migrating from early versions of OS X to Lion, and conclude that its about the same as migrating to Windows 7 or 8.
Neither of us want that!
In the meantime, I have kept my G4 Powerbook, and use it from time to time to resolve my problems.
