I should probably put my flame suit on for this since I am going to intermingle Leopard and Vista together, how dare I....
over the past few years as I have upgraded machines to Vista and now Leopard there seems to be a common issue on both sides of the OS pond. After install some 3rd party apps and hardware often don't work, and while some have patches on day 0, many don't, and worse yet many give an indication as to the fact they don't know when they will, leaving people to hang out to dry for several months or look completely to an alternative. I guess what frustrates me is that in both cases betas were available for some time, and while some seem to take the effort to find a way for their products to work with the new os's during that time there seem to be a great many that don't. I think then users tend to place some of the blame on the OS mfg vs the app developer when things don't work at first. In reality IMO it is not Apple/MS responsibility to make sure the apps work but the developers themselves.
I guess what irks me about this is how things compare when say a new version of Wow comes out. If you play it or any other games that has mods this analogy will probably make sense. Anyway a new version or patch of wow comes out and usually in sort time any UI mod that gets broken due to core changes is usually fixed. Even when there were major changes where some mods were permanently broken due to locked functionality or major changes in how things worked behind the scenes there still seem to be a major effort to get things back to where there were as quick as possible, all from people whom are not getting paid for their work, with maybe minimal donations compared to the above.
I don't expect every thing to work day 0, it's just unrealistic, but I can only take so much "we will fix that in our next version which will be out in a year maybe two and it will cost you $99.95 even though you just bought the old version yesterday" or "Yeah don't think we are going to support that super mouse 5 on the new OS, but super mouse 6 will be out soo you should upgrade to that". No I am not talking about hanging on to 2 generation old apps but current versions. Oh well I will shut now.
over the past few years as I have upgraded machines to Vista and now Leopard there seems to be a common issue on both sides of the OS pond. After install some 3rd party apps and hardware often don't work, and while some have patches on day 0, many don't, and worse yet many give an indication as to the fact they don't know when they will, leaving people to hang out to dry for several months or look completely to an alternative. I guess what frustrates me is that in both cases betas were available for some time, and while some seem to take the effort to find a way for their products to work with the new os's during that time there seem to be a great many that don't. I think then users tend to place some of the blame on the OS mfg vs the app developer when things don't work at first. In reality IMO it is not Apple/MS responsibility to make sure the apps work but the developers themselves.
I guess what irks me about this is how things compare when say a new version of Wow comes out. If you play it or any other games that has mods this analogy will probably make sense. Anyway a new version or patch of wow comes out and usually in sort time any UI mod that gets broken due to core changes is usually fixed. Even when there were major changes where some mods were permanently broken due to locked functionality or major changes in how things worked behind the scenes there still seem to be a major effort to get things back to where there were as quick as possible, all from people whom are not getting paid for their work, with maybe minimal donations compared to the above.
I don't expect every thing to work day 0, it's just unrealistic, but I can only take so much "we will fix that in our next version which will be out in a year maybe two and it will cost you $99.95 even though you just bought the old version yesterday" or "Yeah don't think we are going to support that super mouse 5 on the new OS, but super mouse 6 will be out soo you should upgrade to that". No I am not talking about hanging on to 2 generation old apps but current versions. Oh well I will shut now.