Why didn't Apple tell us?

Nowhere in their advertising for 10.7 did I see anything about it not working with Power PC apps. I seem to recall that when OS X was launched we were well warned about how many apps would not work and we would have to upgrade them. I now have 3 apps that I use often which can't run under 10.7. I would never have downloaded it had i known this.

It has been well known that it wouldn't be supported. I strongly recommend reading http://www.macsurfer.com/ and always backing up your data prior to installing anything. Yes, Apple has been surprisingly quiet, but Quicken did even go ahead a few days ago and said its 2007 version of its application would not work because of no Rosetta. At least a hint should have been up reading the specs that even lower end Intel CPUs weren't supported. The earliest CoreDuo CoreSolo Macs aren't supported. With those not even being supported, what chance does a PowerPC have of being supported? Snow Leopard had Rosetta as an optional install. To make a transitional application optional, after being standard should also be a hint that it will no longer be available at some point in the future. Yes the writing is on the wall. Unfortunately hints are often not enough. Sorry to hear of your surprise. We are just end users here.

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OS 10.6.5 corrupts DVD Studio Pro!!!!!!!! - Why didn't Apple tell us

OS 10.6.5 corrupts DVD Studio Pro. Upgrade to 10.6.5 and you will mess up the drop zones in a number of the templates, in addition to other problems. It's a shame that Apple did not thoroughly test this update in advance. If they did, they would have discovered that it breaks one of their own Pro-Apps.
Contrary to some other postings, Pro Kit 6.0.1 has nothing to do with it. It is 100% an OS 10.6.5 problem. HOWEVER to easily (and relatively quickly) fix the problem, all you have to do is reinstall Snow Leopard and then use the 10.6.4 Combo Updater. That's it . . . problem solved. No reinstallation of FCS necessary, no loss of settings or preferences, the computer and all your other Apps and prefs are not disturbed. Moral of the story: Stay clear of OS 10.6.5.

For those who were totally stuck with a malfunctioning DVDSP 4.22 (an in my case running also OS X 10.6.5 and FCP 7.03, on a MAC Pro), I'd like to share my experience since I had a project due and was not going to be able to deliver. Quite an empty and frustrating feeling to say the least. Here's what I did to meet my contract obligations:
1) Do not place your mouse over the simulator screen. Doing so crashed DVDSP every time. Instead you can use the screen remote to do some testing of your chapter markers and stories. You can also use your keyboard arrows. (My mouse is a Magic Mouse FYI).
2. To avoid a compiling error and further test your markers, end jumps, etc., here's what I did:
2a. First I built the project (use only the "build" function). Afterwards, You are going to use only the "format" function. At this point, select as your output destination, the "hard drive" option by using the arrows, next to "output device." After doing this, I was able to open my project with the computer's DVD player and test out my chapter markers and story.
2b. Secondly I of course wanted to burn discs. I burned my disc using Disk Utility. You select the project having the "img" suffix. In short time I burnt 12 copies with no compiler error or other problems.
Well, I made my deadline. I'm glad I did NOT try to go back to a previous Pro Kit as that was beyond my abilities and as Mr. Sass has pointed out, the problem in his opinion is OS 10.6.5 and not Pro Kit 6.01. And before I tackle the possibility of reinstalling Snow Leopard, I will need an idiot's guide as how to do that and be certain that's really the remedy. I'm just an aging liberal arts guy.
I like Apple very much, but this DVDSP problem whatever its origin, forces me to follow the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and wait until others point out the pitfalls. And for my next project, capture sixty seconds of raw footage and dare to burn a disc. If it works, fine. If not, warn your client.
I'm sure Apple will fix the problem right after Christmas.

Why didn't apple cal the new Ipad the iPad 3???

Why didn't apple cal the new Ipad the iPad 3???

Apple has not explained why, so nobody here could tell you for sure. Perhaps to keep it in line with naming polices for computers (all iMacs are iMacs, all MacBook Airs are MacBook Airs) rather than the iPhone.

Maintaining Macs--Why doesn't Apple tell you more?

This is not a problem that I need to solve but just something I've been wondering about. Why doesn't Apple tell people the routines they need to use to maintain their Macs?
If you do a search on "maintenance" in Support the fourth item is Mac Maintenance Quick Assist:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303602
The things they tell you to do are:
1) Keep Things Up to Date; 2) Put Your Files Away; 3) Name Your Files; 4) Prune Through Your Files; 5) Back Up Your Files; 6) Check for Viruses; 7) Clean the Outside
Where is anything about running the maintenance scripts, checking permissions, checking your preferences, updating the databases, cleaning caches, or anything else that software programs like Onyx, Cocktail, etc make their purpose? Why don't they mention getting a program like Disc Warrior and running it periodically?
The first item on their list is Keep Things Up to Date, meaning download system and application updates. Well after looking at these forums for a while I would have to say that is the worst thing you could do, as so many posts start, " Help! I updated my software and now things don't work...." Even if you look at this article about updating your software...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106704
...nowhere does it mention repairing your permissions! Yet everywhere on this forum that is mentioned as one of the first things to do...unfortunately AFTER people are crazy with problems.
I don't get it. Even in the manuals that come with the computers none of this stuff is mentioned (last time I looked) except in the troubleshooting section. Would you buy a car where the owner's manual had "change the oil regularly" listed in a section on what to do after you've blown your engine?
Granted, a lot of people on this forum know all these things and do them regularly, but I have several friends with Macs who never do any regular maintenance because they've never been told to. One just called me last week because his iMac auto-updated and he had all sorts of problems.
So why is this? Why isn't basic Mac maintenance explained to people better? Going back to the car analogy, people have been taught they have to give their cars tune-ups or face an eventual breakdown. Why not with Macs?
I have been using Macs for years and enjoy looking into this geeky stuff. And I rarely have any serious problems. I would think it has a lot to do with the fact that I don't automatically update without checking MacFixit first and seeing what problems people are having and running a few simple maintenance routines periodically, plus backing up for good measure. Why isn't Apple more upfront with people about maintaining their Macs? Am I off-base here?
ibook G3, imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I'll provide you with several references you will find interesting reading:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060413075624652
http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/secrets/repairpermissions/index.php
http://www.macworld.com/2006/03/secrets/tcopermissions/index.php
http://www.atomicbird.com/node/view/29
The document to which you referred is an old one that dates back a ways when permissions repairs were often still needed because many installers improperly changed permissions or caused permissions to change through other improper operations. In reality the only thing permissions repair affects are the permissions on OS X installed software for which there are receipts in the /Library/Receipts/ folder and third-party software that install a receipt that includes information on resetting permissions for that software. The vast majority of third-party applications provide no such information and repairing permissions has no impact on them.
As for maintenance scripts they are now supposed to be run automatically regardless of whether the computer is turned on in the early AM, but this is an implementation with Tiger because Tiger introduced a new method of task launching. It's not 100 percent effective but it's better than it was. However, it's an easy problem to solve because there are some excellent utilities that solve the problem: Macaroni, Anacron, and Pseudo Anacron - VersionTracker or MacUpdate. I use Macaroni on all my Macs.
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.2 is Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.
I know that Joe Average has no clue, but it's not Apple's responsibility to provide Joe Average with clues on how to use a computer. No more than it's not GM's responsibility to teach you how be an automotive mechanic or how to drive. Some things you have to take responsibility for yourself. It's just that Joe Average is too lazy to read the User Guide, buy a book, or in any other way learn about computers before buying one.
As you can tell I am somewhat heavy handed about personal responsibility. Computers are essentially toys that aren't dangerous, but the person playing with them is. What really scares the crap out of me is that same Joe Average has a driver's license and may be old enough to drink liquor. When it comes to driving or drinking and driving Joe Average is no more competent.

Why didn't apple make message like iRealsms app?

why didn't apple make message like iRealsms app?

Apple will not & never has/does respond to questions like yours, so don't waste your time using the Feedback form to ask.
However, if you have a suggestion, you can use that form to make your suggestion. However, Apple will not respond.

Why didn't Apple update it's 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina line up?

I plan to buy a new MacBook Pro Retina to replace my MacBook Air, I've been waiting for months to see if Apple update it's 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina line up, but on Spring Forward Apple did not update it, does any body know why and when will apple update it's line up? Also I will do a lot of coding and video editing with my new MacBook Pro, which model should I take, or what will suit me the best, the 13inch Retina MacBook Pro or the 15 inch Retina MacBook Pro?
Thank you guys for your answer, and sorry for my bad English.

Intel hasn't released the Quad Core Broadwell chips yet, Intel recently announced mid 2015 for these chips.

Why didn't apple make iphone with wifi calling?

It is beyond me that Blackberry and the Android phones have wifi calling and the new iphone 5 does not. Why? That should be standard in all phones.

Just left a message there. Thanks. I live and travel and work in poor coverage areas and have a mifi to cover me doing charge sales. Sad that Apple won't let me talk in these areas too.

Why didn't Apple offer a 2TB or 2.2TB Fusion Drive in the 2012 iMac?

Surely Apple knew before marketing the new iMac that the 3TB HD would not work with Bootcamp, so why did they not provide at the outset a 2TB solution and place in BIG bold lettering the incompatibility between 3TB drives and Bootcamp? I've been a customer since '94 and been made to feel like a king until now when I'm made to feel like the king's fool. I've been put through so much grief (and after a five week wait) and for no good reason. Now waiting for my return to go through so I can order a unit with 1TB HD and quickly have to resort to external storage solutions.
Please offer a 2TB solution ASAP!

Thank you, varjak. I made my comment at apple.com after your direction, but they promise no response. I've not seen a single discussion where somebody suggested a 2TB solution, either. Maybe the problem will get solved without my belly aching, but I sure was needing to say something in hopes for a little relief; at least to get it off my chest.

Why didn't apple include a radio feature on the new iPod touch but included it on the nano?

Apple should have built in a radio for the new iPod touch. If they do that then I will consider buying one but for now I'll just use my old iPod with the radio

All we can say is "because they didn't". You can suggest it to Apple here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html
Regards.

I just upgraded to Lion only to get the message that I can no longer use my Office (word/excel/powerpoint). Why doesn't apple tell you these things. You'd think they wouldn't be interested in making money for their arch rival usoft. What R the options?n

What are the options other then to re-partition the disk and run lion in one and leopard in another. I suppose I can go over to Google and use their web tools which are compatible with Office. This *****. So much for backward compatability.

Apple makes the Operating System, not the 3rd party apps. In such a big step as upgrading the OS, the user would be the one responsible for making sure that any key apps that they use are compatible with the new OS before taking the step and upgrading.

Why didn't someone tell me?

I have been following these forums for a little while now. I was looking at one that used a StringBuffer to build strings instead of ...
String out = "";
out += "Another String...".. etc. I decided I would do a test. I know this may be stupid but I never even considered using a buffer. I was thrown into the Java world and just went with things I learned along the way. I build the following test..
// Method to test wether or not Adding items to a string
// using a string buffer.add() is faster than creating
// it other ways....
import java.lang.StringBuffer;
import java.util.Random;
public class stringMethodTest {
private static Random generator = new Random();
private static String[] list = {
    "A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O",
    "P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z",
    "0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"};
private static String give(){
    return
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)] +
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)] +
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)] +
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)] +
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)] +
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)] +
      list[generator.nextInt(list.length)];
private static void buildUsingPlus(){
    // This will create a String using 4000 iterations
    // and a native String.
    String out = "";
    for(int a = 0; a < 4000; a++){
      out += give();
    System.out.println(out.length());
private static void buildUsingPlusAndIntern(){
    // This will create a String using 4000 iterations
    // and a native String.
    String out = "";
    for(int a = 0; a < 4000; a++){
      out += give().intern();
    System.out.println(out.length());
private static void buildUsingBuffer(){
    StringBuffer SB = new StringBuffer("");
    for(int a = 0; a < 4000; a++){
      SB.append(give());
    String out = SB.toString();
    System.out.println(out.length());
private static void buildUsingBufferAndIntern(){
    StringBuffer SB = new StringBuffer("");
    for(int a = 0; a < 4000; a++){
      SB.append(give().intern());
    String out = SB.toString();
    System.out.println(out.length());
// main method just runs each of the above and times the execution.
// Putting all code in here truncated my post for some reason.I was amazed to see that when building a string using SbringBuffer.append(), with 4000 7 character words randomly generated, it took 0 ms compared to 7 sec or more in the +String way. !!!! OK. Is this magic? Can it really take 0 ms? If all of my tests are true why don't more code examples I see around use StringBuffer?

It's true... kinda. First off, the system time is only accurate to something like 1/20 of a second or so. That being said, StringBuffer is TREMENDOUSLY more efficient for that type of use than good ole' String.
In case you don't know why... Strings are immutable. They NEVER change. Everytime you want to append something to a String, you are actually creating a new instance of String. The following:String foo = "hello ";
foo += "world!";Does this: It creates an instance of String in the first line and gives it the value "hello ". In the second line, it does not just alter the value of foo. What it REALLY does is create a new instance of String with the value "hello world!" and assigns it to the reference foo. As you can see (especially with your test you did), this can cause BIG TIME performance problems if you're using a large set. Creating instances is expensive, plain and simple. (which is why they have StringBuffer at all).

Why didn't Apple make it clear that if you upgrade to Mountain Lion on an older Mac, and want mirroring to work you were out of luck ?

I read the requirements to install Mountain Lion. My system quilified, that is unless you wanted all the features to work. Mirroring is not a "Key" feature that will work on older iMAC machines. What a letdown for features I wanted to really work.

I feel really let down that my $2000+ i7 8gig MacBook Pro (mid 2010) can't mirror it's screen with AirPlay, but. $600 Mac mini (2011) can.
Really? Is wireless video *that* hard? I've been a long time Apple supporter, (1991) way before iAnything, and in those dark years up until now, I always made the point that Apple hardware had longevity. Of course my MacBook is still functional, built like a tank, and I'll get years out of it, but Apple dropping support for a top level machine so soon is unsettling.
I really, really wanted AirPlay, and bought Mountain Lion right away. It wasn't until later, while waiting for the download I noticed my beloved MacBook wasn't supported. Apple really should change their advertisements to make clear it's really only for brand new machines.

Why didn't anyone tell me you could name sprites now?

Damn, it's about time they added this feature. I can't
believe how long it
took me to notice. Hooray for no more updating all the code
every time I
move the sprites down a channel or coding in cumbersome
global property
lists to keep track of where all my sprites are...

> I still use 8.5, so no sprite naming. But an easy
workaround was to create
> a global variable (gSpriteNames = [:]) and use an
onBeginSprite handler
> like:
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was doing (that's what I
meant by
"cumbersome global property lists"). The biggest problem I
had with that
was that I didn't know you could do
gSpriteNames[#someSpriteName] =
spriteNum, so I was doing it with
gSpriteNames.addProp(#someSpriteName,spriteNum), which I
discovered was
creating a memory leak - every time a sprite's beginSprite
code ran, it
would add a duplicate value to that property list, which
would ultimately
get too big and crash the program, and so I had to first
check to see that
it wasn't already on the list before adding itself, etc. Then
I had to then
add code to each sprite to REMOVE itself from said property
list on
endSprite... At any rate, naming sprites is 100x better, so
far about the
only new feature in MX 2004 I can actually USE, but by itself
well worth the
price of upgrading.
I just can't believe it took so long to implement this
feature. I think
I've been putting in a request for this on their wishlist
after every new
version since Director 5 or so. And when they finally did
implement it, it
seems like it was just quietly slipped in there - I didn't
see mention of
this on any of the "What's New" documents - they spent all
their time hyping
the Javascript support and Flash Components, which I barely
touch. By
contrast, this is something I will be using on probably every
project from
now on. In fact, I think I may load up a couple old projects
and change
them all so they work this way. It just makes so much more
sense than the
old way, and requires no scripts to implement, so it's less
likely to screw
up.

Why didn't apple upload any new music today?

they were subposed to today! its tuesday! plus tey have pre-orders out today!

seriously why didnt tey at that time it was like 4 weeks

Why didn't Apple charge me after accepting my order?

i Purchased iPhone 6 from Apple uae with an Egyptian credit card and my order was accepted but no money was withdrawn from my account yet??

It's normal. When i bought my macbook back in 2012 it took almost 2 months for the payment to be processed.
For a second i thought i had got a free mac

Why didn't Apple tell us?

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