With Nintendo struggling to juggle Wii games on the Wii U and Sony's Playstation 4 abandoning current gen PSN games, it looks like backwards compatibility is a thing of the past.
You had the mass market ones, like eHarmony, of course, but there were those that tried to find compatibility based on religion (like JDate), or even your profession (Farmers Only).
Windows 8 and Atom devices also provide compatibility with millions of hardware peripherals like printers, mice, keyboards, cameras, receipt printers, fingerprint readers, etc.
And while the new Zip drive -- like its 100MB older sibling--lacks compatibility with 1.44MB floppies, it is compatible with the approximately 100 million 100MB Zip disks that have already been sold.
Like other NETGEAR 802.11ac WiFi Routers, its compatibility with next-generation WiFi devices and backwards compatibility with current WiFi devices provides a future-proof solution.
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What the company offers is compatibility between its technology and that provided by partners like Affymetrix and PE Biosystems peb (nyse: peb - news - people).
Though features like number of apps, weight, battery life and Flash compatibility tend to attract the most attention in tablet assessments, a new study says typing is actually the most common frustration among tablet users.
Sony previously yanked its backwards compatibility feature in PlayStation 3 (a feature that, like Nintendo, Sony used as a hyping point to promote the system).
Like its competitor, Alien Dalvik, OpenMobile is positioning its Application Compatibility Layer to OEM manufacturers rather than consumers.
There's a (fairly evasive) explanation as to why copy-protected media won't work, while commenters remind us that hardware compatibility isn't as surefire as we'd always like.
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