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| Excuse me but I don't see your point. You have a 6 year old harward that is still working and that's fine, you are lucky you can turn it on and off again. You don't feel the need to upgrade because it's working like a charm for you. It's ok. You know how the computer industry work right ? So when you bought it, you knew that at some point it will be deprecated. The manufacturer of your hardware deprecated it years ago and stopped any further development on it. It's been 2 OS release that Apple removed support for PPC. And know it won't even accept it for repair. What does it mean ? It means you are reaching the end cycle of your product. Since Apple droped PPC Adobe and other companies continued to support it. As time goes by, support for it started to shrink. It's no time for Adobe to move on. Why ? Because the technology is also moving forward. Flash as evolved too, and your hardware might not support it properly. But it just means that newer flash website won't work, that's all. And in your initial complain, you mentionned videos. You are now not limited to flash to whatch videos. And more and more videos are now in h264 which is very cpu/gpu consuming. Which might not play properly on your hardware. Are moviemakers evil of producing h264 1080p quality with high bitrate that my not be read correctly on older hardware ? And the crisis as nothing to do with it. You're reaching the end of life of your product, and it's frustrating. But you can't blame the industry to drop support of very old (in computer age) hardware to keep moving on. That's just how it works. Seb 2012/2/8 joe cafe <cafe.joe@gmail.com>: > <On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Carey > Dissmore <carey@imugonline.com> wrote: >> >> Wow, really?> > > > apologies for the delayed response. You are assuming that everyone who > wants to watch a Flash movie is at the edge of motion graphics, with cash to > burn on perpetual hardware investment. > In fact, there are students, and yes, unemployed people. (we are in a > depressed economy, you know) Their ppcs work just fine for them, and Adobe > is prodding them to shell out thousands of dollars every few years, or beat > it. > That is rather heartless. > Then there are those of us who are moving on to other careers, that don't > pay so well, but are more satisfying. We continue to do a bit of work, but > it simply would not make sense to buy the newest and greatest when what we > have is in fine working order. > Maybe Adobe doesn't mean to be evil, but they could at least wait until the > economy is healthy before pulling what could only be called, in this > economy, a bullying tactic. > > >> >> Apple did an architecture shift for better performance, managed a >> "universal" operating environment for 5 or 6 years, finally decides it's >> time to move on, and developers do the same...and this makes them evil? >> >> Sheesh. >> >> Carey >> >> On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:49 AM, joe cafe wrote: >> >> > How evil can you get. >> > It isn't enough that Adobe updates its software so that it can't be used >> > on PPCs. >> > Now, you can't view a new Flash movie. Adobe is not making Flash >> > updates for PPCs. >> > >> >> >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > |
