Dear Weatheraardvark, Blick, Felix, X-Air, and WeatherCat technology observers,
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I bet you one thing, the adoption rate of Catalina isn't going to be nearly what it was for Mojave for the first many months, so you won't hear Cook broadcasting that statistic a year from now at the next WWDC.
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You make a point Felix that goes deeper than I fear Apple realizes. Microsoft ended up with all sorts of security headaches by making the transitions between various versions of Windows too painful. The typical user couldn't handle the migration and was going to lose too much old software they depended upon.
Apple should look carefully at the difficulties that Microsoft had and try to smooth the transition as much as possible. I think Apple is being really stupid in insisting that users abandon all their 32-bit software. If Wine (Crossover) can run most Windows software on MacOS (and LiNUX), it just wouldn't be that difficult to create some sort of emulation software that would support the old 32-bit applications. Just that software sweetener alone could greatly speed up the adoption of Catalina.
Apple isn't an adolescent tech company anymore. It is a business titan by any standards and needs to grow up on one essential point:
keeping your customers satisfied is the most important goal of a business. Every time a company has lost sight of that, from IBM to GM, eventually they would tumble. Can Apple learn from the mistakes of other giant corporations? I sure would like to hope so but thus far Apple management doesn't seem to be maturing.
Oh well, . . . . Edouard