How I use Ideamason - and why

Posted by David Dunham
Oct 27, 2006 at 03:08 PM

Many businesses replace hardware on a 3-4 year cycle, so requiring 4 year old software doesn’t seem that terrible.

I confess my own Opal outliner requires a version of Mac OS X that’s less than 2 years old, so I may be a little biased. My logic was that it was a lot easier writing robust software when you can rely on newer OS features, and that the bulk of sales, for me and other publishers, was to the latest release. That doesn’t help the people who can’t afford the upgrade, don’t want to take the risk of changing what works perfectly well, or who’d need new hardware. (In my case I have a machine that doesn’t have enough free disk space to upgrade.)