The only thing I like about Apple

[MackTheHunter]

They make new stuff work with other people's old stuff.

I have a Sony Dream Machine stereo system w/iPod dock that I got back in 2008 for christmas. Now at the time, I had a 3rd generation iPod Nano 4GB (which recently got stolen) and it was perfectly compatible with the stereo because it came out about six months before the Dream Machine did.

After I bought the brand new 6th Gen iPod Nano in 16GB, I was expecting the radio to not recognize the iPod and possibly not even work with it's interface. I was wrong.

As soon as I plugged it in, the iPod suddenly popped up with a Sony logo at the top, and the radio worked 100% with the new iPod. Keep in mind that the radio was released two years before the new Nano came out.

If a company like Samsung or maybe Sony had a system similar to this, when you plugged in one of their portable music players it would probably be like "what the forget is this, I can't operate with it whatever it is".

Apple are smart for this reason. Discuss.

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[SeventhSandwich]

Explain then why people running 10.4 cannot play blockland?

[The Doctor]

I wanna apple now

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First post....damn you seventhsandwich

[yuki]

Uh, that's system compatibility.

The same idea behind running old Windows 95 programs on 7 or XP.

[MegaScientifical]

First post....damn you seventhsandwich

You'll get banned for trying. Don't.

Anyway, there's this Mac-only video editor I love... Only used it at school... I WANT IT FOR MY XP.

[Sheath]

Explain then why people running 10.4 cannot play blockland?

Uh, if thats true its probably because of the architecture. Since older Macs use a PPC processor, not an Intel. Tiger is generally associated with PPC, you probably can run it on Tiger with an Intel Mac.

[Primus]

Uh, if thats true its probably because of the architecture. Since older Macs use a PPC processor, not an Intel. Tiger is generally associated with PPC, you probably can run it on Tiger with an Intel Mac.

I have a PPC mac (yes, a fossil!) and IT runs Blockland.

[Chrono]

I can plug an old VCR into my new TV and it'll still work.

[MackTheHunter]

Ableton Live 8 was designed for Mac and works the best on Mac D:

[Marcem]

I can plug an old VCR into my new TV and it'll still work.

But that's no connection like this is, it popped up with a sony logo on the ipod?  That's good.

[Chrono]

But that's no connection like this is, it popped up with a sony logo on the ipod?  That's good.

Okay so they took the few minutes to program it to have compatibility with old methods.
Lots of things do this.

[pecon7]

Most things are designed to be compatible with older things, this is common.

Vice-Versa, not so much.

E.G. save an old file and open on new program- Most likely will work unless the developers were cigarettes and dropped compatibility.
Save a new file and run on old program- almost never works since new programs typically have new pieces of data the old program cant work with or has a totally new encoding.

[Oasis]

You like Apple for something PC can do?

Good job.

[yogamoanyo]

Ironically, Apple can't get worms.

[Tom]

Actually apple is really bad about backwards/forwards compatibility. Older iPod chars do not work with newer iPods.