That is the point I am attempting to get across though. There are plenty of Mac users still running Intel Core Duo machines and continue to make use of Rosetta. As these old machines cannot go beyond Snow Leopard whether it be because of Rosetta or the Intel Core Duo architecture both are valid reasons for Snow Leopard to receive a well overdue update.
in many aspects of our life, but GAPS need to be closed soonest - the right steps are asked!
Anyway, first point I challenge you to find an insult. However the last sentence in your post is clearly an insult. I don't insult, you don't like the content of my posts, there's a lot of that around here.
The sad part is their strategy to develop the jet black phone to give it an appearance of an all glass form factor to disguise the old form factor flopped hard
The bezels wouldnt have been so atrocious only if Apple gave us front facing speakers
I would expect Apple to stand behind their hardware, and that includes providing software updates to keep the older computers secure. Perhaps a disclaimer should accompany new hardware specifying that only critical security updates will be provided after 5-6 years.
There are a few reasons that might not be a good idea:
Why is it that people keep suggesting that Apple turn the Mac into a PC? Why don't you just buy a PC and let the rest of us keep the better system?
No, and no. Licensing turns a platform into a cheapest possible box that technically qualifies as running the OS. In other words: into a PC. That makes no sense. PCs still represent the majority of the market, so turning the Mac into just another flavor of PC dooms the Mac to irrelevance, and therefore extinction.
You're assumption is that the pro market is important. It is, but only to the pro. Even if it were important to the rest of the world, pros need to accept (as the rest of us have) that personal computers are now mature. Rapid improvements are part of their history, not their future. Computers will get faster, but over much greater time frames. If you like, you can hope for a new quantum rig, but if and when that arrives it's not going to come from Apple or any PC maker. That will require an upstart to disrupt the established players.
Depends what people get excited over
Complacency the new "courage"
Sigh. It's not the hardware, and it's not the software. It's the fact that they control both that matters. That's what makes for quality, not more speed. Would I like more speed? Sure, but my desire doesn't change the physics. Accepting reality is not complacency, it's just realism.
They do that now, like most PC makers. It's not about who contracts to build it. It's about who controls the build. Adding a middleman that will brand their own boxes just adds cost while forcing Apple to cede some of that control and costing them sales.
Of course it would be impractical to support all of the above releases however Snow Leopard is unique in that many machines cannot run any later release due to architecture restraints and there are still those who need Rosetta to run PPC applications. Rosetta does not feature beyond Snow Leopard. As it stands these Mac users are being penalised for not upgrading their Hardware and Software. It would take little effort from Apple to release a 10.6.9 update for Snow Leopard which remains one of the most stable releases of OS X.
Every one of these posts implies this. If this was not the case then they'd not be expecting this and that from Apple all fo the time.
It's nice to want it, but to expect it (or anything else from Apple) is just arrogance. If Apple wants our $$ they will fix things up or their profits will continue to slide.
This is not demanding execellence though. This is demanding specifics of this and that to cater for some invididual's wishes.
iPhones and iPads are portable PCs by definition. That debunks the statement you just said here. You just want Apple to focus more on it's desktop PC and notebook PC lines more.
