I have been using and enjoying this great player for OS X for several years now. Not every Mac user is interested in upgrading to an operating system that is mainly optimized for a G5 processor and a new generation of machines. There are many G3 users and even more G4 users (such as myself) that are done upgrading for now. Tiger is great if you just bought a new Mac or already have a G5. Why be like Apple and force everybody else to upgrade? You're not selling hardware. I suppose I will continue to use your b9 version until it is no longer viable and that will be that. :(
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I'm speaking as someone with no relationship to the dev team so don't take this as gospel, however...
MacOS X 10.4 introduces a number of new features which make developers lives easier (and give us new toys to play with). Technologies such as CoreImage and CoreData are likely to lead to a number of Tiger only programs, especially where free software is being developed aqnd there's no incentive to devote the extra time and hassle to getting everything working on older OS releases.
Certainly users with older hardware aren't left out in the cold - I'm running Tiger on a iBook G4 and it's more responsive than 10.3 was, and it's not desperately expensive even for those of us living in the depths of the Pacific. I certainly don't condone Apple's policy of not providing upgrade pricing but you can't really blame developers who work in their spare time for not making use of their new toys.
Cheers,
James
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I have been using and enjoying this great player for OS X for several years now. Not every Mac user is interested in upgrading to an operating system that is mainly optimized for a G5 processor and a new generation of machines. There are many G3 users and even more G4 users (such as myself) that are done upgrading for now. Tiger is great if you just bought a new Mac or already have a G5. Why be like Apple and force everybody else to upgrade? You're not selling hardware. I suppose I will continue to use your b9 version until it is no longer viable and that will be that. :(
I'm speaking as someone with no relationship to the dev team so don't take this as gospel, however...
MacOS X 10.4 introduces a number of new features which make developers lives easier (and give us new toys to play with). Technologies such as CoreImage and CoreData are likely to lead to a number of Tiger only programs, especially where free software is being developed aqnd there's no incentive to devote the extra time and hassle to getting everything working on older OS releases.
Certainly users with older hardware aren't left out in the cold - I'm running Tiger on a iBook G4 and it's more responsive than 10.3 was, and it's not desperately expensive even for those of us living in the depths of the Pacific. I certainly don't condone Apple's policy of not providing upgrade pricing but you can't really blame developers who work in their spare time for not making use of their new toys.
Cheers,
James
I for one just don't "need" Tiger. There is nothing about tiger that made me go "oh. damn. i want that." So I'm still running 10.3.9 too.
There are lots of applications out there that run on both Tiger and pre-tiger systems. Can't this be done with MPlayer?