Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening

[bbeagle]

Call it cross compatibilty and the post stays valid, going back to what thewitt actually meant. It was aimed at the whiners about that their old machines or their new software is not cross compatible. It isn't and as thewitt states, is not focus of Apple for reasons others mentioned as well.

I agree with what thewitt, you and the others stated here, but just not the examples.

Microsoft has tried to keep everything backwards-compatible, to their detriment. Old DOS programs still work with Windows 7, but that required a lot of bugs to be carried over from OS to OS, so the they would work.

Apple has always cared more about cleaning up the architecture instead of worrying that old programs work. And Apple is big on 'you used undocumented functions', or 'we fixed the bug, which we think is the right thing, even if old code needed the bug to work'.

It's much like it's a car. Microsoft will give you a new speaker system, but leave the 8-track and cassette players in there, while Apple will have removed them long ago, as they're clutter, and give you just one option to listen to music.

 

[monir5]

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