On 6 Jun 2005 at 20:35, Simon Troup wrote: > > The real question to us, Finale user, is that would MakeMusic! take > > a long walk again, as did on OSX? > > I would have thought that any loss of time making the adjustment would > be paid back by closer parallel development in future.
There will be no time savings at all, as Finale doesn't run on top of the hardware, but on top of the OS. Since the APIs for OS X and Windows are completely different, there will be absolutely no time savings in parallel development. In fact, for most apps designed for the native OS X APIs, surely there will be very little in the way of changes needed for it to run on whatever Intel chip Apple chooses to put in its new Macs. Classic will be much more complicated, though, according to what I've read. And keep in mind the last line of this article: http://news.com.com/2100-7341_3-5733756.html After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that." However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said. (here's a hint for posting News.com URLs -- cut out the title of the article and keep only the numeric part. The original URL looked like this: http://news.com.com/Apple+throws+the+switch%2C+aligns+with+Intel/2100- 7341_3-5733756.html?tag=nl ) -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
