From: Chris Coccia <mothra@...>
People still us OS 9 4 years after the release of the first OS X?
(Sorry had to)
No you didn't. :)
You're making several incorrect assumptions: 1. that people using music software switched to OS X four years ago; 2. that everything everyone needs from made it to OS X; 3. that Classic is the same thing as OS 9 (it's not, it runs *inside* OS X); 4. that the OS X versions of everything are better; 5. that even if they are better, moving everything to OS X is free.
For example, for one of my businesses I rely on Classic to process credit cards in MacAuthorize (with an OS X "adapter" program). Changing cc-processing software would mean a) about $500 + hefty processing fees, and b) reprogramming the Filemaker database to export the numbers in the right format.
And sometimes I use Word 5.1, which is still the best word processor ever written. Frigging Word 2004 is ludicrous (examples of why: the search and replace command doesn't work from the keyboard and you can't put in a new one, it's slow on a frigging 2x2.5, all the commands change every version...). I've been trying out Pages, and if it had a selection word count feature I might be tempted to switch. Actually I probably will in spite of that important feature, since you can copy and paste a selection to a blank document to get a count; you don't really need a lot of the advanced features (indexing, what have you) for magazine writing.
Nick Batzdorf, editor/publisher
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