[dreaming]

Apple have demonstrated time and again that they are happy to break existing functionality if it suits their aims.

[theclay]

And just as important--Apple's customers have demonstrated time and again that they will follow wherever Apple leads.

[tptacek]

What's your best 2 examples?

[Yaa101]

OSX and Intel processors...

[tptacek]

OS X supported OS9 apps until long after people were puking at the mere sight of OS9 apps.

And when they converted to Intel, they also provided Rosetta, a completely ridiculous binary translation system to make PPC apps work.

Those are bad examples.

[rimantas]

The most striking for me when Jobs announced move to Intel was the bit where he told that they had OS X builds for Intel since the very first version of OS X. Who knows what are they cooking in their secret kitchens.

[prodigal_erik]

NeXTStep was ported to x86 back in 1993, years before it was acquired and rebranded as Mac OS X. I would have been surprised if they had neglected to maintain an asset like that.

[gmlk]

Motorola 68k -> Apple/Motorola/IBM PowerPC -> Intel ???