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- 2005.08.31
Looking back, I seem to have developed a pretty good track recordfor either predicting what Apple will do or giving them ideas theyfollow up on - or maybe I'm just ignoring the 95% of mypredictions/requests that get ignored.
I called for a headless iMac, and lo, the Mac mini appears. I was the lastholdout supporting a one-button mouse, and when I finally changed mymind, presto, we got the Mighty Mouse. Aaaanyway, I've got another ideaI've mentioned before, but the timing is better now. This one has to dowith releasing OS 9.2 as a free download.
The conditions under which Apple might consider such a move are:- The current crop of machines will not boot under 9.2.
- The youngest machines that will boot under 9.2 will not boot underthe current version of OS X
- There is some value to be gained in market share by encouragingupgrades of older machines while they are still compatible with newermachines. By which I mean software that runs on both OS 9 andX.
- Apple could use some free friendly publicity in the OS market.
Well, today, #1 is true; my PowerBook G4 won't boot in OS 9, andnothing else currently on the market will either. That's been true forabout two years.
Industry cycles usually call for replacing computers every threeyears (although Mac users tend to hang on to their machines longer).Since people upgrading to a new machine will not be able to purchase anOS 9 bootable machine, they'll either cling to the old one or get a newMac with OS X. If they cling to the old Mac, Apple loses a sale,and if they get a new Mac, booting into OS 9 isn't an option.
But what happens to the older machine? It gets handed to a school, acharity, or a relative, and they use it with OS 9. Making OS 9free makes this hand-me-down market happy - which keeps the donatorshappy as well and builds good will for Apple.
As far as #2 goes, we're not yet at the point where the youngestmachines that will run OS 9.2 (equipment issued in 2003 such as the1 GHz TiBook andearlier) won't run OS X. Apple claims that Tiger will boot on anyPowerPC G3 with sufficient RAM and hard drive space - that includesmachines all the way back to the beige G3 machines Apple madeand the pre-iMac G3All-in-One machine that looks like a molar.
However, beige G3's won't take Tiger (or Panther either, for thatmatter) unless you help them along by installing XPostFacto. Since mostregular users don't do anything requiring such steps, we'll designatethe Blue and White G3tower as the oldest desktop Mac to meet this condition. I know (seeMac OS X and the Blue and White G3 FirmwareUpdate Problem) that a B&W G3 will boot in OS X (andactually runs okay if it has enough RAM and hard drive space). In mostcases I would think that does require an upgrade from the originalspecs of some sort. (Editor's note: I have Tiger running on a 350 MHzB&W G3. It's very usable.)
Given this criteria, Apple has nothing to gain by releasing 9.2 forfree for these machines, since the user could conceivably purchase acopy of OS X.
All of this, however, may change with the new OS being developed forIntel hardware. It's pretty likely these older machines won't run anyvariety of 10.5; in which case Apple has nothing to lose by offering OS9 (or even Tiger, for that matter) as a free download.
Just as it did with OS 9 and iTunes, Apple can offer a tantalizingglimpse of what's possible and then remove the older OS from thedevelopment cycle; a sort of sophisticated sales pitch. iTunes wasoriginally available for OS 9, but newer versions only runs inOS X.
Since Apple has announced that it is moving to Intel hardware, therewill be some inevitable incompatibilities. Apple faced this when itswitched from the old Motorola 680x0 chips to PowerPC hardware back inthe early 1990s, again when they switched to G3 processors, and yetagain when they introducing OS X.
When OS X on Intel ships, Apple has already decided that classicisn't worth adapting to run on the new machines (although I think of alot of low-end users would disagree). At that point, like OS 7.5.5, itmight be a good idea just to post OS 9.2.2 as a free download as agoodwill gesture.
I think Apple should seriously discuss this idea in a mid-levelexecutive boardroom somewhere and bring it to Mr. Jobs as a way ofone-upping Microsoft once again as a company that cares about itsusers. The users most likely to have older G3 equipment were earlyadopters when Jobs returned to Apple and are the ones who carried Applethrough the Dark Times, you might recall.
In a recent article, Robert X. Cringely expands on a reader'ssuggestion for Apple to include a bootable version of OS X forIntel on new iPods, just to infect Intel users with Apple fever. Idoubt that will happen. But when every PowerPC computer becomesobsolete, there might just be some goodwill to be spread by supportingthe users who have stuck with the company for many years.
Apple gets roundly criticized (and rightly so) for providing noupgrade price for the various versions of OS X. Perhaps the payoffis that after going through and paying for three to five majorrevisions, we get the classic Mac operating system for free.
Which means we might be getting Tiger for free in about 10 yearswhen Apple is shipping OS X 10.11 (Thundercat) or something.
I'll be waiting.
- Mac OS XTiger Technical Specifications, Apple
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