I have no experience with the software but I'm sure they tested it
with Voice Over, that's just my opinion by the way! Staying on
topic, maybe the company thought the package working on Intel Macs
only might succeed because blind people are taking up the Mac in a
bigger way than before with Voice Over and maybe most have Intel
Macs. Any new user will get an Intel Mac but I don't know what they
mean in the hardware requirements by mactel, was it a miss print or
is it a term I've never heard before?
At 22:20 17/09/2008, you wrote:
and then, its chances of working with voice over are nill?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: intel mac only?
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?
>
>
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