Would some enthusiast Mac supporter please explain to me why this failure of
application software to work on different versions of a Mac OS is an
application problem. Had this happened to an OS/2 application whilst I was
manager of OS/2 system and compatibility testing I'd have had a powerful lot of
explaining to do to my bosses. New function is wonderful but one *never*
breaks old function... even if the app developers did it wrong. Incidentally,
this is one thing Microsoft never quite understood while we were jointly
working on OS/2 and it took constant vigilance to make sure they didn't alter
the API's to suit the whim of the day.
Chuck Norcutt
> -------Original Message-------
> From: David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
> Sent: Jan 30 '08 13:39
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:46:34PM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote:
> > Okay, downloaded Olympus Master 2.05 and tried again, on three
> > different computers. There's no crap about "administrator login" this
> > time, but none of the three computers can detect the camera!
> >
> > What a load of crap. Leopard has been out for four months. Developer
> > access has been well over a year.
> >
> > I can just hear some marketing manager saying, "But we never get any
> > complaints from Mac users!" THAT'S BECAUSE NO ONE CAN USE IT, YOU BOZO!
> >
> > There. That felt better. But I still can't use my 1200mm equivalent
> > f6.5 lens.
> >
> > The most excellent plan, poorly implemented, might as well have never
> > happened.
> >
> > I'm going to go try Chris's suggestion of Olympus Studio trial
> > version, but it sure is starting to feel like banging my head against
> > a wall...
>
> Jan,
>
> I hope they resolve it, if only to increase market penetration, because
> it isn't a bad tool at all, as these sort of things go- it's great for
> a quick & dirty automatic fixup for some things.
>
> This sort of thing is my personal gauge of how serious a software
> supplier is, i.e. do they provide a version that will work under
> Xwindows & *N*X. Unfortunately the majority of software suppliers
> just fail this test outright. As a result I don't buy much software.
> Usually the freeware equivalent is better anyway! That said, I do have
> the sacrificial $300 junk windoze box (I paid my 30 pieces for the OS)
> for just such an emergency...
>
> The windoze version won't upgrade for me... it says there are upgrades &
> then crashes the upgrade process... :(
>
> davidt
>
>
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