Itunes 10 and Tiger 10.4.11

I think you win the award for biggest ******* of this post

That was until you came along.

Why do you have to come here and try to justify that we need to buy new computers to use our iPhone's and Ping.

I'm not trying to justify anything to you or others.
If you want iTunes 10, you need 10.5 or 10.6.
If your computer won't run either of these, then you cannot run iTunes 10.

First it came with Safari 4 being cut from support and now iTunes??

Huh? Safari 4 ran fine on Tiger.

This whole argument that its too difficult for them to program for PPC computers

What "whole argument"? Can't say I've ever heard that.

have a whole dev team devoted to a 10 year old XP OS

Where did you get this insider info? How do you know how many people they have working on anything?
Did you stop to think that maybe there is no difference in the application or the install from XP, to Vista, to Win7?
Maybe a driver or two (that already exist) and a few path names are different but likely there is very, very little code difference between them all.
Talk about a new up-to-date OS, right?

Chris,

I admire your effort here, very good of you. You are providing good information, that hopefully will make it through the ranting.

I don't understand all this anger over not being able to use the latest toy - iTunes 10. 9.2.1 works great with Tiger or Snow Leopard. Tiger at 10.4.11 is still a really good OS and will be for a long time. I use it as often as SL everyday.

Not much sympathy for someone who doesn't check system requirements before buying or worse, before ranting about how a device won't work when system requirements clearly state it will.

Do the folks know Apple is a for profit company. Do they know why it has done so well when Macs represents at best about 10% of the market. Of course Apple sells to Windows users - the other 90% of the market.

Apple makes and sells products with the latest technology - hardware and software. PPC's have been obsolete for about 5 years. Apple is just now tapping into the 64 bit potential. Plenty of warning, especially in computer technology. OS X 10.7 is probably in development.

But the old hardware and software still do what they always did -- what we paid for.

I think that's too easy to play Apple's "get out of jail card here"...
Of course many are disappointed that a rival system is supported and Apple's own OS is not. Also XP is a blast from the past and Tiger IMHO is not.
It gives the feeling that a Tiger user is not wanted in the community regardless if PPC or Intel.
But if I read that you need at least 1 GB RAM for HD movie viewing, well then... it might be too much for a three year old machine cos in the end: There is one major flaw with Apple products: They outdate themselves too quickly. Look at the min. requirements for Tiger and compare those to iOS... I bet an iOS4 will not run on an iMac G4 due to the lack of power. Tiger however... will... mad stuff...


Besides the German website still lists 10.4.11 as compatible with iTunes 10...

and now even worse: every time I login, and want to buy from the store, or change something within my account, iTunes says something like: sorry for the inconvenience, but try later again.
what is this? so I can't even buy songs anymore?
anyone same experience?

If they are not going to support 10.4.11 anymore they need to put 10.5 back on the Apple store for purchase for all those people that have Power PC Macs

10.5 can be purchased from Apple.

Give them a call and explain your situation.

(800-692-7753)

Matt

I would have liked to buy an Ipad, but I can't, unless I spent 120€ for an old OS (10.5) on an old computer. I cannot even buy an ipod.

I was thinking to buy a new Macbook, but maybe Windows is a better option. If I had chosen an XP pc, today I would have no problem in upgrading my Iphone to 4.1

And anyway the italian apple site still says that Itunes 10 need Mac Os 10.4.11.

I just made a clean install of 10.4.11 for my editing station and I can't find "at least" the option to download iTunes 9.
Right now I am running iTunes 7.

How can I... at least... get the iTunes 9 for download?

How about letting us upgrade to 10.6 for $29 as currently listed on the Store for a good will start? I have both 10.5 (my work Macbook) and 10.4 and frankly don't see the need for the upgrade on my home iMac. 10.4.11 is fine for my needs. I just want to keep my iPhone updated and that is the machine I use. Apple can do what they want and i will still love the products but this is a bit of a shaft, IMHO.

Chris Ca,
is your alias a shelter for big Steve? you talk as an Apple CEO.
Can I suggest you that selling 10.5 at the same price of 10.6 at least in bundle with an ipad could be a good idea (imho). As a matter of fact an old os has no cost for Apple.

I'm mad at apple too...

I have both a G4 17' and a iMac 23' dualcore... What really hit on my nerves is that Apple didn't even programmed a routine to check your OS version and let you download the right itunes version accordingly. My itunes is corrupted and i need the version working on Mac OS 10.4.11. Naturally, go figure, this old version is hard to find like diamonds, because since one of the reasons new itunes versions are released is anti-piracy securiy hacks, the first thing Apple does when a new version comes out is make the old version disappear completely. Now, they screwed it, because the old version IS STILL REQUIRED. So Apple, PUT A LINK TO THE OLD VERSION CLEARLY ON THE ITUNES HOME PAGE because we G4 / Tiger users can't just "upgrade" anything more.

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I worked it out this way: downloaded and installed the 8.2 version for the "imac G3"... (what a shame..) The link is on the itunes home page. I know it's old, But again, I don't give a **** about iTunes 10, I just want to play my files and that's all...

BY THE WAY APPLE...

See what you did for G3 users?? You put a link on the home page... NOW you need to do the same for G4 users. And you should have done it BEFORE releasing itunes 10, not after days!

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I'm running 10.4.11 on a mac mini with;

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MM21.009A.B00
SMC Version: 1.19f0

I am extremely upset myself. I've waited for the new iPod touch for months and months, I saved up money to buy it, and now I can't buy it because my computer is "too old"? I used to love Apple, but this is such a letdown. All I wanted was to buy yet another product of theirs, not to become a forgotten customer. I hope they do release a Tiger itunes 10 version, how can they not care about all Tiger costumers they are losing?

I'm running 10.4.11 on a mac mini with;
and?

Any reason why you have to go around trolling every post on the apple discussion boards acting like your Mr. Bigshot making smart remarks to many of the genuine questions or comments? Don't you have something better to do with your time like working or a family or just getting some fresh air outside? Or are you justing working on being imaginary "king" of the apple discussion boards by gaining post numbers? 90% of your posts to this Itunes 10/Tiger issue have no value and most of the responses are just trying to belittle many of these people that have questions or comments. If you don't like what we are having to say please move on. You sure have a long way to go if you think your going to top the TOP USERS anytime soon.

From what I gather here, if you are still on Tiger you cannot upgrade to Leopard, and you cannot run Snow Leopard on a non-intel computer. Someone gave me a new iPod and I can't use it with my laptop!

A dead end. Horrible corporate maneuvering.