"John Smith" <workerbee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Paul:
>
> You are way too negative. Much of what you are saying is simply
> not true.
>
> The new Intel Macs will have the same APIs. In many, many cases
> ****ting over is an easy recompile. On the other hand, creating
> Carbon applications from Classic applications was a major effort.
> The APIs changed. Much code had to be rewritten. That was a
> painful change.
Read the Keynote: if you're using CodeWarrior, the first step is to
convert
to XCode (major pain, major productivity hit: I've tried it). Then even
Apple admits that ****ting Carbon apps is harder, and just about every
commercial app uses Carbon. Companies will have to produce two versions of
their programs for several years: even if they can do a single codebase
that
can just be recompiled, they will still have to fully test both versions
(which takes months on Adobe-class applications, at VERY great expense)
and
sup****t both. Will they, for a computer that will have no significant
market
share for at least a few years, under the best possible cir***stances?
Assuming Rosetta actually works as advertised (which I find very hard to
believe), many won't even try the x86 thing for the first year or two.
(They
didn't go for the PPC or OSX either.)
In their place, I'd be maintaining Mac and making every possible effort to
make my Windows versions better (PS for Windows isn't competitive w/ the
Mac
version now, but it could be!) on the theory that people buying new boxes
will either buy x86 Macs (which will happily run Windows) or switch to
Windows outright. I wonder if Microsoft will offer a competitive
sidegrade?
They might well offer a deal through Adobe for PS or Indesign customers,
once the hardware barrier is broken.
Most commercial companies understandably dream of being able to develop
for
one platform, but don't quite dare shaft their user base that badly (e.g.,
Quark couldn't pull it off.) I'm not a businessman, but this looks like
Apple has handed them a golden op****tunity to do exactly that, with all
the
risk and blame being carried by Apple.
So no, I don't think I'm being all that negative. I may well buy a (low
end)
x86 Mac for writing / internet someday, because OSX is so much pleasanter
to
use than the alternatives, but I don't expect many non-Apple programs to
be
there for me. Actually, I'm hoping for OS 10.6, and strongly doubting
10.7.
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