Phil M wrote:
On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
Form a marketing point of view, it's pretty obvious, that Apple tries
to force
developers to jump on the new train.
Well it took three to four years for all of the major software to be
ported to native OS X applications (starting from 10.0.0).
I can understand that Apple would want to speed this transition up, but
forcing a transition 6-8 months after the first consumer Intel Mac was
released is quite ridiculous and very rude.
Apple retail is a business. They won't force a Universal Binary only
restriction on their retail sales unless they are at least relatively
confident that there will be enough UB boxes ready at that point to
maintain or grow their current sales levels.
There's probably a lot of politics at work here. Whether Apple does
enforce this restriction now or not... leaking this idea allows them an
additional opportunity to get the idea across to a few key companies
that they need UB's. More than likely I'd say this is tied to when
Apple would like to introduce Pro machines that would require UB
versions of a few key apps in order to demo and sell effectively.
-Bryan Lund
www.radicalbreeze.com
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