Google earth stupidity

[ffutures]

Google earth (the mac version) has now started to insist that the latest version is a "mandatory upgrade" and won't let me run the old version. The new version won't run on mac OS-X 10.3.9, it needs 10.4... And I'm really not going to pay a hundred pounds or more for an operating system I don't otherwise need. I'll try complaining on the forums again, but I suspect it won't do much good.

Later: On checking the Mac forums for Google Earth it looks like this is a bug with the automatic update program which Google are trying to fix.

VERY later: Turns out that shutting down the Mac and restarting appears to fix this. So far, anyway.

Comments

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

That's a shame ..

[epocalypse.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it ran in 10.3 at all. The early Mac version insisted on 10.4 as standard so I never got it until I eventually forked out for Tiger (something I don't regret, it is shinier).

Still annoying as hell though.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Total pain - and I won't be upgrading to Tiger; this is my laptop, not my main PC, and I don't want "shinier" that badly.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, once 10.5 comes out, more and more apps will cease to have updates that will work with 10.3. The latest versions of several apps I use regularly already require 10.4

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Nothing else is giving me problems so far. If I spend money on this it'll probably be for a new battery, this one has gone from 2-3 hours of use to about an hour in the last couple of months. I do have another, but occasionally I need 5-6 hours without recharging.