Snow Leopard > Lion

[spikejp]

Backward support for 3rd party HW

Can any of the DP4 testers tell me if Lion will in general support all hardware which SL currently supports??

I have a BlueRay burner and SSD from 3rd party manufacturers and wonder if by upgrading to Lion they will no longer be recognized.

I know it is possibly a dumb question, but could anyone with knowledge from DP4 respond??

Spike

 

[PBP]

It will probably work.

 

[haravikk]

Oh yea for sure Apple is going to find a way to make things for Lion only. But it would be stupid if they did. Snow Leopard is much different internally than Leopard and Leopard to Tiger. Lion has no inside enhancements. So in reality it could last as long as Lion last. But in Steve Job's world I give it 2-3 more years.

Native versioning, auto-save, pause/resume, and fullscreen don't qualify as differences? What about API support for advanced sandboxing and privilege separation?

Lion includes something like 3,000 new developer APIs; if anything you should be arguing that most of Lion's new features are internal instead of user-facing.