It’s a well-known fact that no PC hardware or software maker will survive if you stop buying new versions of their products. While there will always be new customers, a company wants to extract as much cash as possible from the ones that have already purchased their stuff.
Of course, this applies to all businesses building [...]

It may seem strange that I must always return to Apple’s previous processor transition in discussions of this sort, but the comparisons are important to some of you. When I purchased that first Power Mac 8100/80 back in 1994, the wait for native software seemed endless. Sure, there was a plugin from Adobe that accelerated [...]