On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Martin Hairer wrote: > If this is true and we (i.e. the Mac developers in general) are forced to > rewrite our products almost from scratch for the iPhone OS just a few years > after being forced to rewrite them almost from scratch for Mac OS X, then I > start to seriously worry about Apple's ability to retain large software > developers.... Any thoughts?
Just a few years? It's been 10 years since Mac OS X was released. And iPhone OS is not replacing Mac OS X in the way Mac OS X replaced Mac OS 9. If you feel that backwards-compatibility should be first priority when designing a platform, you should be working on Windows. For better or worse, Microsoft does everything it can to make sure that old applications continue to work on new versions of Windows without modification. -- Ben
