I would only ask then, what is the cutoff? Should Apple be forced to support apps that where written for OS 9, how about OS 8, or OS 7?
Where I work right now, we are going though this same sort of transition. People purchased whole platforms and then never invested in keeping them up to date. So now that we are moving to Windows 7, these applications can no longer be supported.
To take this course of logic to its extreme, we would never progress beyond v1.0 of an OS, because no company would be able to leave any application written in the past behind.
We complain about software bloat, but the root cause is legacy code and legacy support that no one wants to give up.
Take MS Office as an example. How much extra code do you suppose is in MS Word alone, so that it can support every version of word document created in the past, all the way from v1.0 to now what? version 13? 14?
To be certain, there have been many apps and games I loved from the past that I can not find replacements for now. But, we move on...
Now, if what you have works for you, and you do not have to work with others, then by all means, stay where you are.
I am no rich man, and I would not tell anyone else to do what I do. For me, upgrading is important for security reasons. I keep my software up to date and patched so that whatever I am exchanging with others has as little chance of being a security risk as possible and has the highest chance of being compatible with what they are also using.
Message was edited by: Richard Wessels