get stuff done ?

... losing access to historical content (and I don't mean Appleworks) with new hardware/os (legacy formats) requires thankless mind numbing churn effort, risk, overhead, lost revenue and content loss - I could get a lot more 'done' if my life work could reside and be easily accessed on a shiny new mac...

What in heaven's name are you talking about?

Oh, let me guess ... you used software Apple announced that they discontinued 10 years ago and never upgraded or converted your documents because you're cheap. But that's Apple's fault, not yours and AppleWorks forever, right?



I've got documents I wrote in college -- in the 80s -- on this computer. All you need to do is a) keep your software up to date and b) convert the documents if you find your tool of choice discontinued WHEN IT'S DISCONTINUED, not a decade later. It's not difficult, it's not expensive, it's not odious -- unless you are lazy and/or in denial. THEN it's complicated.

Unfortunately...

...some vertical applications (not appleworks, beyond text editors for writers) don't actually allow effective migration without significant effort and continuity checking, and even so some may not enjoy spending their off time converting legacy documents - clearly understanding differs and those doing sophisticated work needing powerful workstations may simply be better moving back to windows which offers support road map for xp/w7 to 2020...

Rubbish. You're lying because you were called out your spurious "blame-Apple-for-my-own-failings" claims which are easily seen through ... even the WordPerfect people eventually got the message and moved on ...

If "vertical applications don't allow effective migration" (again, what a load!), HOW ... and please spell it out EXACTLY ... is that Apple's fault?

You also go on to admit that you simply didn't "enjoy" converting legacy documents ... quick, someone call the WAAAHmbulance!

Again, that's Apple's fault ... sorry, HOW again? :D

Please DO move back to Windows -- that way everything can be THEIR fault, since it's obviously never YOUR fault ...

I wonder who gets the blame when you manage to lose a printed document ... the inkjet printer? The makers of Bic pens? The paper company?? Oh wait, no ... it's Apple's fault! :lol:

printed documents

(or handwritten for that matter) are still last time I checked viewable from ancient times, allowing access and use of content, which ironically might be one of the real benefits of a non-deteriorating computerized digital preservation format, and allow 'getting things done', which was I assumed the point of the article...

Apple offers iBooks Author to 'get things done', but orphans the vast majority of (old format) content by accessing only the latest OS? Surely it works for some, or even many, but it seems to me an inconsistent if ironic approach, and perhaps out of balance if history is of any value...?

Nice!

You're lying because you were called out your spurious "blame-Apple-for-my-own-failings" claims which are easily seen through ...

So now MacNN staff is calling it's readers liars? chas_m, every time you call someone out to be a "troll", it's quite clear to the rest of us that the pot is calling the kettle black.

I suggest you tone down your highly opinionated rhetoric.

Originally Posted by Grendelmon

So now MacNN staff is calling it's readers liars? chas_m, every time you call someone out to be a "troll", it's quite clear to the rest of us that the pot is calling the kettle black.

I suggest you tone down your highly opinionated rhetoric.

I see no MacNN Staffers but I do see some on-point commentary calling out the idiocy of bobolicious's comments. Oftentimes, things are actually not someone else's fault but in fact are our own fault. It takes a big person to accept responsibility for a failure, no matter how small it is.