In a worst case scenario we may not even have a choice. I rather doubt
that MakeMusic would even consider another big change like the one from
OS 9 to OS X if it meant as much trouble as the last one. Meaning, they
may well drop Apple alltogether. In which case those of us depending on
Finale may have no choice in the matter.
I am not saying that this is likely to happen. Personally I rather
expect that the change will be more like the move from 68k to PPC, and
that was actually pretty painless with Finale.
As far as I can see it all depends on compilers. I don't share the fear
that MIDI won't be backwards compatible. This wasn't the case on PPC
either, so why would this be different now? As long as Apple provides
the OS links for it, why shouldn't it work?
I have no clue about compilers and the like, but what are the chances
that Metroworks will also provide a compiler for Intel chips?
The way I see it I won't buy another Apple computer until I know a) that
the move to Intel chips will be either seamless and backwards
compatible, and b) that Finale will have a future on the OS X platform.
For the moment it seems impossible to tell.
I bought my iBook in January, so the earliest I will think about a new
machine will be in 2007. Until then all this should be pretty clear.
Johannes
Robert Patterson schrieb:
Amen to that. If this switch is half as disruptive as it seems from
reading the postings on this list, it likely means the end of my
association with Apple (including plugins support). Windows' long
history of backwards compatibility is beginning to look mighty nice.
Hiro:
Too bad that AU spec finally got settled with Panther, and we all
are in the happy place now, which doesn't seems to last long.
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