Good for David Pogues. I hope he has a nice life as a shill for the 
big software developers. If he thinks there is "progress" on OS X or 
whatever, he needs some head surgery. It is not "progress" as in 
moving forward, that would be action. What we have is activity, not 
action. It is like the car industry in the 60s and 70s putting more 
chrome bits on the car, but essentially, the car isn't going anywhere.

But in any case, his warning isn't relevant here -- this wasn't an 
upgrade or whatever, it was a simple "security update" -- it was 
supposed to protect the integrity of the OS. Instead, it broke an 
important feature -- the key feature for most of those still using it.

Now -- as for it being the game I have "signed up to play". Well, I 
didn't. I signed up to DTP books on a funny little beige box. It 
actually worked very well. Except for one thing. I had to buy a third 
party program to manage my fonts. 25 years later, I STILL have to buy 
a third party program to manage my fonts menus. Apple STILL hasn't 
built it into their much vaunted OS. What a joke!

As for being frozen in time -- I bought a mid-2010 13" MBP just this 
week as a back-up to my present one. it's set up with OS X.6.8 of 
course.

If Apple wants to bring a lot of serious people along with them, it 
needs to supply their needs. The OS is the least of those. For me, 
Canvas is much more important than OS X. For others, I know 
AppleWorks is their key -- and what a great program that was. The key 
element of both these programs, Canvas and Appleworks, is their 
stellar level of integration and user friendliness. There is no other 
program like them.

Progress. Hrrmph!

Cheers, geoff

At 2:53 PM +1100 4/2/12, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>David Pogues wrote this yesterday discussing that change is always there:
>
>"3. Operating Systems Turn Over, Too. Every week, some unhappy 
>reader e-mails me to complain that Apple or Microsoft or Google has 
>updated Software Product X, and that therefore his or her 
>four-year-old Product Y no longer works.
>
>Agreed: It's a bummer. But this, too, is part of the game you've 
>signed up to play. Big software companies make a reasonable effort 
>to remain backward-compatible. But after a few years of progress on 
>Mac OS X or Windows or whatever, devoting the resources and manpower 
>to that task, all for the sake of a dwindling number of holdouts 
>from the late '90s, is no longer worth it.
>
>You can either remain frozen in time with your older 
>computer/operating system/software combo, or you can upgrade and go 
>with the flow."
>
>Keep this in mind.
>
>------------------------
>Regards from brianF
>===============
>
>On 04/02/2012, at 12:11 PM, Bob Stern wrote:
>
>>  Macworld magazine says Apple released a revised version of the update:
>> 
>>http://www.macworld.com/article/165216/2012/02/apple_revises_snow_leopard_security_update.html
>>  --
>>
>>  Bob Stern