Well this doesn't make sense. The big boys already very clearly
stated that they would go UB when they did their next version
upgrade, and not before. This is probably why Apple unusually
released MacIntel on consumer machines first rather than high-end. It
still doesn't explain why they left-fielded everyone with a six
months early release, and I can't see this rushing MS, Adobe, Quark etc.
Maybe they're hoping people would switch over to XCode, but that's
not trivial if the apps are coded on a different IDE.
In any case it will be Apple's fault if there are no good apps to demo.
To be honest I really can't understand what they're doing here. This
hurried advance could be the worst decision they've ever made. The XP
hackers are making great strides. There's a good likelihood now that
all those "killer" apps will run faster under XP than they will under
Rosetta OS X, damaging the perception of OS X. If that occurs to any
significant degree, then OS X will die, as will XCode, Rb and any
apps made with them.
For some of those big name apps, it'll be a year before they're UB,
and that's a long time to fall behind - and why should they bother if
the Win versions will work...
And of course, having suffered once with Newton's death, and being
left footed on UBs, why would developer's ever want to code for Mac
OS again? And how many Macs would they sell without non-Win OS?
Perhaps this is the start of the death of the Mac. Unless Apple have
something really awesome up their sleeves for 1st April...
On 25 Mar 2006, at 01:20, Bryan Lund wrote:
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.
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tonyspencer.blogspot.com/
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