Does New Development For Mac OS X Make Sense? 394
DLWormwood wonders: "As a long time Mac developer, originally as a hobbyist and then a professional, I'm feeling pessimistic about the future of the platform now that Apple is embracing Intel and abandoning the few remaining 'Mac' technologies (like the PowerPC and OpenTransport) left to the platform. With the high likelihood that these new Macs will offer a full speed version of Virtual PC and (what I think is) the almost assurance that some clever hacker will make 'X for x86' run on commodity hardware, I'm doubting the willingness of most IT and development houses to even give the Carbon and Cocoa APIs a first glance. (If it wasn't for the poor past performance of VPC, I would not have gotten my first Mac programming job.) Can anybody with a more optimistic view think of a scenario where a modern development house will do Mac development in an age where the help desk will just say either 'switch boot to Windows/Linux' or 'run Virtual PC?'"
Re:from a user stand point (Score:5, Funny)
Put Terminal in your dock and then click on it once in a while. Your problem will clear right up.
-- Mark
Re:Missing the point (Score:1, Funny)
Nobody gives a shit about the CPU. If you say you do, you're either lying or you're an idiot.
Not for you. (Score:3, Funny)
No, it doesn't make sense. (Score:5, Funny)
Re: I AM your mother (Score:2, Funny)
And I own two G4 Powerbooks, 15 and 17", two partioned volumes each, running Tiger, max RAM, broadband, wifi / Airport Express, Nokia Bluetooth . .
I'm also a grandmother, and you all need to get: (who am I talkin' to: dateless geeks) women are not what you think.
Re:Excuse me? (Score:1, Funny)
Unless it's a robot, in which case, it's an inanimate machine. Or a classic Mac.
Re:I think that the prospects are better... (Score:3, Funny)