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[OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Subject: [OM] Re: E3 firmware update AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:27:07 +0000
I understand your point of view, Chuck, but I suggest that it is a  
mutual arrangement between Olympus and Apple.  Each is a stakeholder  
in the other's organisation, but one depends on the other more than  
the other way around.

Olympus's software support for Mac computers is a business decision  
not an altruistic one, just as with its support for Windows users.

Of course, I should like it to be your way every time so that I am not  
forced to upgrade.  And I wish that I had not bothered to upgrade my  
FileMaker ...

Chris

On 31 Jan 2008, at 12:07, <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 > wrote:

> Yes, the OS must absolutely remain backwardly compatible and, no, it  
> is not impossible to maintain compatibility while at the same time  
> offering improvements in function and performance.  I understand and  
> accept yours and Jan's  comments about commitment to customers...   
> but it works the other way around as well.  Olympus is a customer of  
> Apple in having chosen to provide Mac OS support to its own  
> customers.  Apple's commitment to its development user community  
> should be a guarantee that things that previously worked will  
> continue to work... at least up until the time it becomes necessary  
> to make a complete technology shift and abandon the old way entirely.


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