Re: [PLUG] why apple

["Claude M. Schrader" <plug@claudeschrader.com>]

oh I may have been unclear. Tiger hasn't had any minor updates in quite a
while. What I was trying to say is there was a path forward to a newer
OS that does support iTunes and new ipods (10.5). 10.5 is the end of
the road for PPC users though, so at some point they're going to have
to leave users behind.


On 11:44 Fri 28 Jan     , David Coulson wrote:
> Since it is an upgradable OS, why not upgrade it to 10.5 or 10.6? I am 
> surprised Apple even release OS updates for Tiger considering how old it 
> is and the requirement to continue to support PPC.
> 
> On 1/28/2011 11:24 AM, Claude M. Schrader wrote:
> >My brother went through this too - new iOS devices require iTunes 10,
> >which won't work with 10.4. They need to be upgraded to at least 10.5
> >(leopard). Clearly it's annoying, but it's not that unreasonable for
> >an almost 6 year old upgradable OS to not support new hardware.
> >Claude
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