How Many Apps Will Be Lost?

Question

I've been updating OS since System 8.7 but I'm not going to update to Mountain Lion.
The reason is most of my best apps and plug-in will no longer work.
I'd urge all Mac users to check out this list of compatible apps, at: http://roaringapps.com/apps:table/

Answer 1

@whitewater2 - Yes, as you say " safest bet is to wait until all your apps are updated for compatibility."
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pics that first 'alerted' me to be concerned about my software investiment: Adobe InDesign CS5 has reported problems and a 'problem' about some updates, like with Adobe, is you have to pay money to update, like to CS5.5 or CS6 to 'cure' the problem -- and other than compatibility I have no reason or desire to update.
Scrivener, btw, has been excellent about updating and improving their product for both Mountain Lion and retinia and keeping it's customers very well informed; they should get an award.
I'm a bit hesitant about the statement, though, "you never had a problem," -- well, Mountain Lion has been out for exactly one day. That's not quite a long term 'never' - one day.
Chrome, btw, has many, many reports of crashing although you also 'never had a problem.'
Although I now see that it is a problem on some of the new Mac laptops; a Search for 'google chrome crashing mac' will bring up many hits and explainations.
STRANGELY ENOUGH - I'm totally happy with my Lion Desktop and $5K of apps working perfectly but in the market to buy a Mac laptop...which maybe is why I became aware of Chrome issue, retina issues (OWC has a good recent podcast about this) and now very cautious abut Mountain Lion.
What I now think I might do is get the laptop (with Mountain Lion) but keep my Desktop the same and slowly, over time, one by one, move the apps I want over onto the laptop and see if they work okay.
Yea..since I was in the market for my first laptop, this might be a good path for me.
P.S. - I like the new Safari. Only had to update/patch two extensions....
Plug-in also concern me (another pic, attached)
This indicated Nik plug-in for Photoshop okay in Lion but not know if work in Mountain Lion yet (it's only been on the market for us all for just one day, after all). -- And I vividly recall the major hassle when going from 32-bit computing to 64-bit computing and many photo, video and audio unit plug in's need to be updated -- and, like Adobe, not all update solutions are generously free.