> > 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.
They have nothing to lose. Non-Apple software title space is at a premium in the physical stores, and they've been shedding third party titles steadily over the last two years to make way for iPod accessories. > 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. Sadly, I have to agree with Brian. Apple doesn't gain anything by promoting PPC only titles, but they gain a lot by drumming home to the hard core Mac community that they _must_ get an intel Mac and any innovation at all is going to happen on intel Macs. And this transition is so much better orchestrated compared to the 68K to PPC transition. They have total control over the development situation, they have (relatively) good emulation, and an entry level Mac is quite competitive. It is really easy to internalize this as a blow against the loyal Mac developer, but at the end of the day, Apple really does not need the small developer. They've acquired or developed so many key applications that they can kiss off a lot of old dependencies. If you sit down with Apple after internalizing this, you gain a better appreciation of the relationship you can have with Apple. 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>
