On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Pablo Roufogalis L. wrote:
Can Developers Give Mactel An Enterprise Boost? http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1895,1909846,00.asp
" SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft and a pack of enterprise developers say they are on target for creating Intel-native Mac software despite Apple's surprise Macworld Expo release of the first Intel-based Macs six months ahead of schedule."
I REALLY doubt this was that much of a surprise to Apple's big development partners. Moreover, lots of folks have found that properly written Mac apps literally need to simply be recompiled, making 'porting' a 20 minute process.
Version Tracker's UB list is up to 136 apps already, and not a soul has a new intel based Mac in their hands.
Apple REALLY learned from the 68K-PPC transition, and, IMO, managed this one far, far better. No need for a Metrowerks riding in on a white horse *this* time...I suspect that Apple found it *could* release the new systems ahead of schedule, rather than wait. Also, the WWDC announcement and timeframe may well have been conservative, because these systems were designed around a not-yet-shipping CPU. There could well have been supply concerns, and Jobs was burned by IBM in this regard ("3 GHZ by next summer" Remember that one?)
And I found that the MS spokeperson's statements about "how this affects the XML transition" certainly certainly makes me more suspicious of MS's new format: XML, like HTML, is explicitly designed as platform-agnostic. I suspect MS is playing lip service to opening the file format, and MS'es new XML code is going to be simply an XML shell holding a large, closed, binary element.
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