To REALbasic User Network subscribers,
From: Sam Rowlands,
From: Daniel L. Taylor,
As a small shareware company I have lots of competition. Using RB
has given my competition the edge, they have 4-8 months of time
where their product is going to be twice the speed of mine on
Apple computers.
So why aren't you complaining to Apple? Apple:
* Knew this was coming for years.
* Spent those years optimizing their OS and development tools for it.
* Let NOBODY in the developer tools space know with sufficient lead
time so that they could do the same.
* Proceeded to release Intel machines 6 months ahead of schedule,
again with NO notice to developers, thereby reducing what little
lead time they had promised.
I hate to play devil's advocate here, but I'm not sure this is accurate.
(1) Having a secret team shadow Mac OS X builds on 80x86-compatible
hardware is a long way from a concrete plan to switch architectures.
Do we know exactly _when_ the decision was made?
(2) There was no "promise" that developers would have until WWDC 2006
to churn out UB's; at least, not that I saw. I recall that Apple
stated it would be shipping some models of Intel-based Macintosh by
WWDC 2006, and while the idea that this meant introductions occurring
very close to WWDC 2006 was widespread, it was at best an unwritten
assumption.
I would certainly agree that there has _not_ been sufficient lead
time for those with complicated applications or long development
cycles; I believe that not only could this have been done sooner (say
Jan 2005), but that it could even have been done without directly
stating "we're switching to Intel architectures". I would also agree
that this behaviour doesn't represent a healthy vendor-developer
relationship, and represents a step backwards in Apple's efforts to
make developers "happy".
Cheers, Nathan.
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