Comments on: Don’t be left behind: 5 Mac apps that won’t make the Lion cut

By: PaulRobinson

PaulRobinson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:45:42 +0000

Apparently, though you suggest Penelope as an option, the Eudora OSE will not work with Lion either.

By: KRyan

KRyan — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:19:09 +0000

Running 10.5.8 on an iMac using Microsoft Office 2004 and Quicken 2007. Hmm I need to find out about QuickBooks. No upgrade is worth the loss of ALL my financial data, not even on a Mac.

By: Tim Cimbura

Tim Cimbura — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:05:33 +0000

Another app that won’t be available on Lion is FileMaker 6 (and below). The current version of FileMaker is fine…but there are still many people out there that never made the upgrade and it will be the end of the line for running that version which is no longer supported.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:33:15 +0000

Lion is not only about the cloud, it’s also about more control by Apple of how you use your Mac, what apps you install and where you buy them.

I’m not about to trust Apple, or anyone else with my data. Apple burned me twice by losing my Keychain and no one will do that again.

The way Apple is behaving lately, they don’t give a damn about their Mac users, only about IOS and the App store. Everything else is peripheral. Originally, IOS was a subset of OS10, now the tail is wagging the dog.

By: FarmerBob

FarmerBob — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:44:14 +0000

As far as Freehand is concerned . . .

“Freehand Is Still Working” – http://www.freefreehand.org

Plus Lion is all about the “cloud”. And what with all the iTunes account hacking and theft, I’m not giving Apple too much credit on iCloud and its peripherals.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:53:00 +0000

I still have one of the XM-PCR radios that I use every day to listen to XM satellite radio on my Mac, which requires the program JXM, which runs under Rosetta. JXM has never been updated to be a native OS X app that I know of. There are still Windows programs such as SatAmp that will do the same thing, so I guess I might have to run my Win7 VMWare Fusion installation every day to continue listening to my XM, since I don’t care to use the streaming option.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:54:48 +0000

im gonna pass on lion. both my MBPs are gonna stay on snow lepoard. it seems lion is geared toward people who bought an iOS device and want an iOS computer, im just not sold. while iOS 5 excites me for my iphone and ipods, lion seems like a let down to professional users like myself. maybe when i get a hands on this july, ill rethink it, but until then ill pass.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:26:33 +0000

Office 2011 Family pack has three licences for not much more than the single user version… Good value, and visual basic is back so it will support all the 2004 functions – and with a much improved interface and performance.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:25:17 +0000

You missed some alternatives:

For both Office 2004 and AppleWorks, a great alternative is LibreOffice.

For Freehand, a great alternative is Inkscape.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:11:20 +0000

Quicken’s web site is down for maintenance. Nice timing.

Has anyone asked them if they *want* Mac customers? I’ve used Quicken since 1990 (running on MS-DOS), and I don’t see the appeal of paying to downgrade to the current Lite product.