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Re: [OM] Where's the V4.0 firmware upgrade for the E-M?

Subject: Re: [OM] Where's the V4.0 firmware upgrade for the E-M?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:52:17 -0500
Hmmm. My wife would be extremely upset if her "Pretty Good Solitaire 2k" wouldn't run on current systems. As the name implies the copyright date is 2000. I think I bought it for her when we were still running Win 98. It still installs and runs on Win 7. Maybe it will die under Win 10 but, if it does, we're not going there.

Chuck Norcutt


On 11/15/2015 4:06 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
Yup, same on my iPhone 4. Frozen at an old iOS version for which app
support* is rapidly dwindling.  And if you find a nice new app you fancy,
it usually just won't install.

  (*support means complete life-support = existence, not bug fixes)

On 15 November 2015 at 00:40, Bill Pearce <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I too have the iPad 1, and it is just a fraction of an inch from being a
brick. only reason I keep it is to read our daily paper, which it still
does, but the idiots that run the newspaper don’t seem to understand that
not everyone has an Apple device, so no support for my android tablet. Ah
well...

Apple isn't exactly the warm fuzzy big brother that everyone thinks it is.

-----Original Message----- From: Ken Norton
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:52 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Where's the V4.0 firmware upgrade for the E-M?

Up to Date Moose wrote:

I'm not sure where the line is ... on either manufacturer or user sides.


That is a fair question. The old argument that a device is still as
good as it was when you first bought it is usually true, but not
always so. Take the Apple iPAD 1 as an example. On several occasions,
lately, I've had entire apps disappear because the support for them
has gone away and the publisher has revoked them. The device is slowly
getting bricked. At some point, there will be no more functional apps
running on it at all and all that remains is a $500 piece of aluminum
and glass.


I used a Canon 5D for five years, during which time it was rendered
"obsolete" by new models. But they offered nothing new that was compelling
for my use, so I didn't feel it was obsolete. In the end, it was mostly
the
promise of less size and weight with no diminution of IQ that moved me on.


In the case of your 5D, it was certainly an example of the user moving
on. You changed phases of life and the old system no longer fit.


If you look at Oly's history with µ4/3 and the Pens, they tended to
announce
new models with the flimsiest of real changes/improvements. The E-P2 and
E-PL6 are blatant examples. The "6" is the worst, with only firmware
changes. So I find it a refreshing change of pace that they have chosen to
offer free firmware upgrades with really significant improvements for the
OMDs.


A new year, a new model. Olympus has always done this with the
consumer cameras. A given model is produced in a manufacturing run and
never repeated again. The next run will have a new model number.


If you don't need all that hardware change stuff, I can see no reason
either
to buy a new body, or to feel unloved. ;-)


And then there are people like me....

AG Schnozz

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