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I think most people, me included, are more than happy with the trade-off. That doesn't mean that nothing of value was lost in each transition.

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Engineering is always about trade offs. Microsoft could never make the trade offs that Apple has made and while it has suffered because of it in new markets, it’s gained the trust of Big Enterprise. Microsoft should not be trying to act like Apple.

There is room for both. But if you are a gamer, the Mac isn’t where you want to be anyway. Computers have been cheap enough for decades to have both a Windows PC and a Mac. Usually a desktop and a laptop.

I never suggested that they should, in either case. I'm just saying that there are things that are lost by completely ignoring backwards compatibility. There are plenty of Mac-only applications that aren't games that are now obsolete and unusable because of architecture changes.

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