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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1349215">LOL! Oh, how the memory cheats!!Most of the people who now seem like they are/were &quot;thrilled&quot; with Snow Leopard were the exact SAME people gnashing their teeth and condemning Apple to the skies a couple of years ago. Oh you should have been there! Special web sites (by the dozens!) with compatibility charts and forums filled with fearful faithful! Half the base thought Apple had lost their minds dropping Gx compatibility and the other half thought the idea of charging for a new version with &quot;no new features&quot; was sheer MADNESS that would see Apple lose all its marketshare.There was MUCH wailing about app compatibility (LOTS of older stuff &quot;broke&quot; under Snow Leopard) and cursing about the dropping of G5s and older. The new features in Snow Leopard were MUCH reviled (at first) and it was Leopard's turn to be the &quot;it ain't broke why fix it&quot; poster boy!This same Greek tragedy is re-performed every time Apple does the very thing we admire most about them (in retrospect, it would seem) -- push the industry forward by daring to throw out the old. Man I remember when the iMac came out with no legacy ports at all, you should have heard the howling!!In short, the Mac community is a friendly place with great people, but we're also terrible hypocrites with VERY selective memories and rather picky about stuff as well. For users that have embraced the very ESSENCE of change by picking the &quot;non-standard&quot; platform in the first place, we sure do get cranky when Apple changes stuff ... as a user since the mid-80s I'm just endlessly amused by the occasional hysteria of Mac users ... remind me to tell you about iMovie '08 User Revolt sometime ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1349215"] LOL! Oh, how the memory cheats!! Most of the people who now seem like they are/were "thrilled" with Snow Leopard were the exact SAME people gnashing their teeth and condemning Apple to the skies a couple of years ago. Oh you should have been there! Special web sites (by the dozens!) with compatibility charts and forums filled with fearful faithful! Half the base thought Apple had lost their minds dropping Gx compatibility and the other half thought the idea of charging for a new version with "no new features" was sheer MADNESS that would see Apple lose all its marketshare. There was MUCH wailing about app compatibility (LOTS of older stuff "broke" under Snow Leopard) and cursing about the dropping of G5s and older. The new features in Snow Leopard were MUCH reviled (at first) and it was Leopard's turn to be the "it ain't broke why fix it" poster boy! This same Greek tragedy is re-performed every time Apple does the very thing we admire most about them (in retrospect, it would seem) -- push the industry forward by daring to throw out the old. Man I remember when the iMac came out with no legacy ports at all, you should have heard the howling!! In short, the Mac community is a friendly place with great people, but we're also terrible hypocrites with VERY selective memories and rather picky about stuff as well. For users that have embraced the very ESSENCE of change by picking the "non-standard" platform in the first place, we sure do get cranky when Apple changes stuff ... as a user since the mid-80s I'm just endlessly amused by the occasional hysteria of Mac users ... remind me to tell you about iMovie '08 User Revolt sometime ... [/QUOTE]

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