alansky1 wrote:
I continue to be amazed at how Apple is apparently supposed to be responsible for whether third party publishers' applications work on Lion and if they don't, Lion wasn't "ready" for release.
Apple provides the operating system and the hardware. The third party publishers had over a year to get their products ready for Lion; if they didn't, blame them.
Lion has its quirks but for the most part it works beautifully; it's up to third parties to get their act together and update their applications accordingly, and by the same token for users to determine whether the software they want to use will work with Lion.
Totally agree. Some software developers always drag their heels. Adobe is one of the worst offenders. But it's all Apple's fault even though it's beyond Apple's control. Right...
I'm amazed to see how many people are flipping out because Apple didn't send them a personal letter telling them everything they need to know before installing OS X Lion. In the absence of said letter (perhaps a banner headline on the Apple home page would have satisfied some of them), these folks felt no responsibility whatsoever to educate themselves in any way. They just forged blindly ahead, then howled in protest when things didn't go as smoothly as they had naively assumed they would. And it's all Apple's fault, of course, for promising that Macs are so easy to use that it isn't necessary to engage your brain at all to get perfect results every time. It's a fairy tale, but there has been a flood of angry comments in this very thread from people who found out too late that the fairy tale isn't true. They're mad as h-ll, and not one of them is willing to accept an iota of responsibility for their own lack of preparation. Unbelievable.
Adobe has spent most of the last decade trying as hard as possible to avoid supporting Macs. They have been consistently late with products, they have consistently NOT provided similar feature sets on Mac and Windows, they have consistently been a generation behind the OS, they have consistently tried their best to irritate their customer base (well, they've done that on both Mac and Windows...), and they have consistently declined to fix certain bugs for years and across different versions. In short, they remind me of Quark in the 1990s, just before InDesign arrived and grabbed vast chunks of marketshare precisely because everyone was so utterly ****** with Quark. There was a known crashing bug in Quark 2.x which wasn't fixed until 4.x, and wasn't fixed _completely_ until 5.x. (I could cause Quark to crash, instantly and consistently, by merely hitting command-p to bring up the print dialog and performing certain tasks in succession, on any printer, until Quark 4.x. After that, I could only crash it when printing to certain printers... such as the $150,000 imagesetter. And, yes, I reported it to Quark. No other app did that. The place I was working at then went to the extent of printing up our very own Don't Ever Do This manuals for Quark and handing them out to everyone who had to touch Quark.) If someone comes up with a viable replacement for Photoshop Adobe will see a mass exodus. Hey, Apple, do you want to really screw Adobe over? Produce your own equivalent of CS and watch Adobe's marketshare collapse...
As for the way some people are crying because stuff doesn't work anymore... Apple's been doing this for decades. They have changed the APIs over and over again. Stuff that was written properly would still work, for a while, but even the best-written stuff would die sooner or later. Hack software would die on impact with a new OS update. (I'm looking at you, HP!) I don't particularly care for the fact that Rosetta is dead, but that fact simply means that I won't be going to Lion until certain software and hardware are no longer in use around here. This is because, well, I heard as far back as February that Rosetta was dead, and I checked things out. Very few of the new 'features' in Lion are a surprise, not if you've been paying attention. It's one thing if you've been paying attention, if you even went to Apple's site and looked at the Lion page and if you watched the keynote from WWDC which Apple went to a lot of trouble to make available to all, then you would know what you're getting into when you update to Lion. If you updated without doing basic due dilligence and now you wish you hadn't, well, you'll do your due dilligence next time, now won't you?
Anyone who does not have a backup, when it's so simple and so cheap to do so, will get very little sympathy from me. Anyone who does have a backup can always drop back to that backup should things go wrong. Having a backup before doing OS surgery is part of the necessary due dilligence.
Anyone who did not at least visit the websites of the vendors of your most important hardware and software and checked to see what they said about Lion (Microsoft, for example, was quite explicit about it) and who didn't bother to do a Google search for comments _before_ updating, well, next time they'll do their due dilligence, won't they?
