Ever since SnowLeopard, the system software for Macs has become a mess…
Why?
• Other developpers cannot keep up with the speed of new systems coming up – iOs and OS X are merging together… But why, Apple, am I only to run an iOs
application in the development software sandbox? OS Eleven should support
native iOs support and the touch-screens which are now common on
Windows 8. I know the Windows 8 system seems ugly, but it has the potential
to wipe out iOs… Remember that Microsoft did develop the cashing systems
that are now common in the Netherlands with touchscreens. For example
http://www.vd.nl uses them.
Example:
I use to render nice landscapes with KPT Bryce… This beautiful software took days
to render on a Mac LC or Quadra, so I was happy when I bought my MacPro in
2012. My mac came with Lion. I have tried to install my Bryce system, but the
installer crashed. I assumed that the software was originally installed on the
macmini I sold to my father.. and that could be the reason it
could not be installed. So I asked him to uninstall (delete)
everything that contained Bryce…
Still not installing…
Finally I asked the customer service of Bryce and they told me
that I needed to use SnowLeopard 10.6…. And dear reader…. I
was lucky! My mid 2010 MacPro supports 10.6 without hacking
the OS…. Wow…
So I took the installer disks of 10.6… The MACmini had 10.6.3…
But I needed 10.6.4 to have the drivers… My father saved me
from calling Apple Customer Service… He had a MacMini below
his Television Set that still had 10.6.8 on it…
I was lucky that the disk utility in the meanwhile supports splitting
up a disk that is active… Well done in 10.7, Apple!
This is my 1TB HD now (see next).
Using 10.8 and an iOmega (EMC) NAS is very very tricky… And I
even had to look at customer service of EMC to know that I had
to delete their utility which hangs in 10.8… Apple, you should
support Downwards compatibility…
Snowleopard offers Rosetta PowerPC Emulation. Still needed for older years of
Electronic Tax Services here in the Netherlands… In OS X 10.9 this should be
100% back, Apple!!!
Apple, I know you are a hardware builder, and that is making you rich. I love all the
improvements that you have made throughout the years… In 1983 my father bought
us an Apple ][ clone board with a self-built Powersupply below. On this Apple ][ I
had an impressive program written in Binary. It counted to 100,000 in one second
because the clock frequency was 1 MHz and it took 10 steps to do this… That was
30 years ago… The clockfrequency of my Powermac has increased to 2.4 GHz…
2.400.000.000 cycles compared to 1.000.000 cycles per second. it even has 8
cores that run on this frequency (The Apple ][ had only 1)
Admitted, OS X is capable of far more things that the Apple ][ running Dos 3.3 or
Prodos… But in the nineties I had an Apple //gs Rom I… later a Rom III… Then you
did the same thing like now with 10.6 ~ 10.8 …. ROM III was not downwards
compatible with ROM I. So I sold my ROM III to a friend because some nice demo’s
were not working on ROM III, but on Rom I… With my Mac I was lucky that some
Apple //gs enthousiasts created a 100% working Emulation for Apple //gs…. and
FREE…. But what is not free? The ROM Code of Apple. My dear friends in
Cuportino…. there on the Infinite Loop… Do you think that anyone would steal away
a ROM of an old machine? Do you really think that the software I bought to run
GSOS 6.0.1 on 3.5″ disks has to be bought again?
I can still go into the past with Sweet16…
GSOS was able to run Prodos8 applications… Like 10.6 was able to run PowerPC
applications from 10.0 to 10.5…
my Apple //gs retired in 1995 and before I was forced to use a mac because Apple
decided to kill the Apple // line…
Mac SE – my sweet nice dog shelter
Mac LC – colours!
Mac Quadra 650 – faster running System 7 ~ 9.1
Mac Quadra 800
In 2002 I bought my Dual G4 PowerPC system – Nativily booting OS 9.2.2 but also
OS X 10.2. 10.2 was able to emulate OS 9.2.2 for backwards compatibilty.
In 2007 I blew up my Dual G4 by putting a fan onto the powersupply and then
restart the machine…. It was dead meat.
Luckily I could by an iMac White 24″… On this machine I started to use Second Life
(http://secondlife.com)… It was able to put a DJ stream online while also being
inworld in the Virtual world of Linden Lab, San Fransisco.
With a defect powersupply of a USB hub (Supplier still didn’t answer about my
claim) I managed to blow up my USB controller of the iMac White…
I went to the local apple store with my mac and asked them whether I could try
whether bluetooth was still working. Well designed, Apple! I bought myself a
wireless keyboard and mouse to be able to still use my iMac without bringing her
into surgery.
In november 2010 my iMac didn’t startup. I could only boot up in Single User Mode.
After trying for around a week to bring my Mac back to life I decided to bring it in for
surgery. They came back with the fact that USB was broken so they had to
exchange the motherboard… That was the price of a MacMini!!! And I knew that my
USB didn’t work since 2008… so it should have been something completely
different. I bought a MacMini in the end of 2010 and used my TV Set as a display
because cash ran out to buy a new LCD monitor. de iMac? It went to my Uncle for
spare parts and the video card did not have enough cooling so it might have been
blown up by the bad design of the iMac White 2006… Second Life runs far better on
a MacMini 😉
Dear Reader, now you know about the good & the bad I have experienced with all
the apples I have been eating throughout the years (30)…
If Apple would want to survive for another 30 years, then their software must be
downwards compatible (like IBM does with their Mainframes ever since the 60ies)
and FREE.
I am now struggling to keep 3 systems alive to be able to run the software I want. I
would have wanted to fall back to 10.6 SnowLeopard, but Apple has not supported
iCloud on 10.6…. My account has been upgraded to iCloud, otherwise iOs 6.1.2
does not run… The iPad2 of my handicapped daughter is still running 5.0.1
because of the fight of Apple with YouTube…
My advice to you @Apple: Look at yourself inside… There is a lot to learn from
#Google, #Samsung & even #Microsoft. I own an iPad, but my phone is a Samsung
Galaxy S II running #Android 2.3… I love it because it still can crash and when I
want to use navigation I have to switch it of and on first… But it takes me anywhere
in the world by car because Google Maps is free…. Android is free… Google Mail is
free…
Consider making Apple Accounts free until 20GB because then everyone owning
an iPhone 16GB can backup in the iCloud…
I have read Steve Jobs’ biography and he has really made a difference since the
70’ies of the last century and I hope you can keep his dreamz running from there in
California…
With warm wishes from a very cold Arnhem on Spring-day,
Tjarko Holtjer
Crystal Stars ~ HarmonICE-Health 