Posts by regreader2011 5 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2010
Well, there *is* one argument on Apple's side (though not the one they put forth according to this article) -- because it is apparently impossible for anyone other than Apple to transplant the screen of one iPhone into another one (due to crypto?), no knowledgeable thief is going to try to nick my phone in hopes of selling it for parts.
I wonder whether there is a path that preserves this property, while still giving third parties some option of repairing iPhones?
That's certainly what I will do -- stop at the last version that comes with a perpetual license. Of course, that means that I also have to be more careful about updating anything else -- obviously the O/S out of fear of compatibility issues, but also things like Lightroom which interact with Photoshop.
Also, given that I know that *eventually* there'll be some incompatibility I can no longer avoid (e.g., old computer dies and new hardware only runs an incompatible O/S), that sure gives me an incentive to gradually move my workflow off Adobe products entirely. Sigh, I'd rather not have to go through that hassle... but I will *not* have my files held ransom by a corporation.
From the announcement: "As of [...OS X 10.6 Update 3], the VERSION of Java that is ported by Apple [...]is deprecated" [emphasis mine]
To me, that says that someone else will provide Java for the Mac, hopefully s.t. Apple is no longer "one version behind". It's a bit of a stretch to interpret this as "no more Java on Macs".
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