Depends on what they are writing. If it's something built in XCode then
there should be no reason to not cross-compile for both PPC and Intel.
That said, a company porting a legacy PC app might have assembly code or
other cruft that would have to be re-written to work on PPC. So, for
whatever reason, they decide to port only to Intel Macs leaving the
cruft in place and kicking a portion of their market in the shins. Of
course there are specialized exceptions like PC hardware emulators
(VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox) which by definition need some Intel
hardware to run on. Chances are that if they are porting legacy PC apps
then they have probably already been kicking Mac users in the shins so
they've all run away to safer, more comfy, havens and aren't coming
back. In other words, milk some old product a little more but don't put
a lot of engineering in or the return on investment won't pay off.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
Hi All,
I saw a press release today about a windows package that is now available
for the Mac but it seems it is only available for intel Macs. I am not
quite sure I understand this from a software point of view although I can
certainly understand it from an hardware point of view.
I know that the projection is that the next full itteration of the Macos
will be intel only but till then, why would or how could software be for
"Mactel" only?
