Bill Marriott wrote:
Thank Intel + BootCamp.
End users can thank Intel and BootCamp, but for Mac developers nothing could be more of a threat.
Since the beginning of Macdom, writing for the Mac was a choice you had to make, often a fairly expensive choice. But a lot of developers bit the bullet and did it anyway, and they developed loyal fans, and all was good, and the fan mail helped make up for the unusually high overhead of committing to the Mac marketplace.
Then along came BootCamp, and eventually a variant which further blurs the lines between Mac and Windows apps. When that version arrives, there will be little incentive to support Mac developers -- and that includes "cross platform" developers like most of us here, since users can run VB-native apps right inside of an OS X window.
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