greenmorpher wrote:
BUT down to business. Looks like the Save as/Lion document thing should be a preference. In fact, a lot of people will stay on SL for some considerable time, I would suggest. Is the Adobe suite Lion-ready? If not, all Adobe users will be staying with SL. (Adobe has traditionally lagged in updating for new OSes.) And there really does seem to be a lot of people moaning and mumbling about loss of Rosetta.
Something else that is worth considering is whether Nisus should follow Apple in its latest departure from the norm. It might be a good idea to wait a bit and see how it lasts. Nisus (and other small developers) has been caught out before by Apple's enthusiasm for "innovation".
Cheers, geoff
The New Document Model is only supported in Lion so apps running on earlier releases can't use it. Whether it's possible to write an app that runs on both 10.7 and earlier OS Xs, using the NDM on 10.7 and the old method on earlier releases I don't know (but I suspect it would be quite difficult given the new vs old APIs involved). As far as I'm aware no dual-document-model apps currently exist, Apple's NDM versions of iWork, TextEdit and Preview are all Lion-only I believe. And that should tell you that Apple have not made this change lightly, they've updated
all their core productivity and system apps to use the NDM, they are betting the future on this way of working (and by extension on Lion and a fairly rapid uptake of it by the majority of their customer base). The NDM's going to last, this is not a flash in the pan idea they might reconsider in a few months. This is the future for document creation apps on the Mac. This is Apple bringing real innovation to the Mac again, we'll look back on NDM in a few years and wonder how we ever lived without it. I'll bet my house that Microsoft are already working on some quick and dirty, half-broken knock-off of NDM for Windows 8.
Yes there's been a lot of moaning a groaning about no more Rosetta, but the sales figures for Lion indicate it's likely coming from a very vocal minority of the customer base. Many long-time Mac users fail to comprehend how much the profile of the average Mac user has changed since Apple switched to Intel in '06. A very large proportion (perhaps even a majority by now) of Mac users nowadays are former Windows sufferers who switched to Macs after they went Intel, they've never used a PPC Mac or had to worry about PPC apps running under Rosetta (and many of us who did use PPC, let alone Moto(!), Macs have by now stopped using PPC apps). They are also mostly not Adobe users (aside from Flash of course). So the loss of Rosetta and any tardiness on Adobe's part when it comes to supporting Lion is a non-event for probably a majority of today's Mac users.
The people that really need to run Rosetta can stick with 10.6.8 and it's ongoing security updates for the next 12-24 months until OS X 10.8 comes out and support for 10.6.8 stops. BTW this is why I'd advise you to update to at least 10.6.8 asap, you said before you're staying with 10.6.7 which is no longer getting any security updates (quite a few nasty security holes have been closed in 10.6.8 and it's subsequent security patches). That seems like asking for trouble to me (but then a man who thinks that the most important thing about gin and tonic is what kind of glass it comes in, when everyone knows the vital thing is what brand of gin it contains, may not feel the need to worry about such things...)