> >> Now here's xCode, which is a very nice environment. They > don't make > >> money off of it directly. So how is it a profit center? > By enhancing > >> the sales of other products Apple makes. > Apple needs products that work with and use their hardware. > The more productive Xcode developers are, the more products > support the Mac, the more Macs Apple can sell. It's the same > thing with any operating system. > The software is what people want to use -- few of us care > about the hardware other than the quality of support.
Scott, I think you are missing my point - Apple can now set your mimimum system requirements for you, by virtue of being the only way to access the newest system features. When I look at many Apple software products (not the free or cheap ones, but the Pro ones), they have many comparable features to products from other companies, such as Adobe - except they seem to require a more powerful processor or system configuration. It's a generalization I know but when I see comparable features I wonder why some of those apps, given enough ram, shouldn't work on a G3 or G4 with a very lowly graphics card - esp with there are equivalents on the market that don't have such steep requirements. The conclusion I come to is that there is a plan to obsolete your hardware. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
