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Apple releases new... everything
flaresignal:
Apple did a lot to ease the transitions, though. The processor switches (68k to PPC, and then PPC to Intel) came with emulators that could run older code and cross-compiling for both processors with universal binaries. OS 9 kept right on shipping with Classic until the Intel transition, and Carbon's dead-ending was pretty much announced with lack of 64-bit support in Leopard two years ago with time to spare.
Microsoft seems to be following the same emulation tack with "XP mode" in Windows 7, so that could do a bit to free it from some of its legacy encumbrances.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 30, 2009, 03:35:22 AM ---Apple has actually historically forced companies that make applications for Mac OS to adapt. First example was the transition from Mac OS 9 to OS X. OS X is 100% different from OS 9, and although Apple provided a library to ease the transition (Carbon), a lot of rewriting still had to be done.
Second was the PPC --> Intel transition. This wasn't as big of a deal, though, unless your program made use of a lot of endian-specific code.
Third is actually in progress. In either the next iteration of OS X or the one after that, Apple will drop support for increasingly obselete Carbon. As a result, many ports of professional applications are having to be written to use Cocoa instead (including the Adobe creative suite). Thus far, no software companies have complained about it and are simply complying.
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There's a big difference in individuals changing over and a corporation changing over. I've stated before, the down time in which a corporation needs to learn a new program is just not worth it in many cases. Put it this way, mac may have forced people to change. As an individual it sucks. A corporation however would just get mad and move on. For instance, some individual with a mac is forced to change. Ok fine. A loss of maybe a couple hundred dollars for time wasted figuring things out. I'm talking about an individual, maybe doing business who will grumble, mumble then start to say things to make themselves feel better about the change (It's superior code or something.). A corporation would lose much more than that if they were required to change. instead of the couple hundred, they would lose a couple thousand MULTIPLIED by each worker. You find that most companies will ask these questions (instead of the casual user) like, "Is it stable? Will it run my programs?". If a program was phased out due to either an OS change or a drop of a program... you don't get a good image for that OS or software. Corporations need things that just work and also are familiar in interface. A few hours is usually already too much. We're talking about people who either move at speeds of $100-300+ dollars an hour, or a group of minions moving at 20-90 dollars an hour.
PowerMac:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on May 30, 2009, 05:28:27 AM ---because corporations don't give a fuck about macs.
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Obviously they do care, otherwise they would not bother updating their applications each time Apple makes a major change to the platform.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: PowerMac on May 31, 2009, 02:20:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: bloody000 on May 30, 2009, 05:28:27 AM ---because corporations don't give a fuck about macs.
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Obviously they do care, otherwise they would not bother updating their applications each time Apple makes a major change to the platform.
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"They"?
This "they", does it mean the few companies that make/sell software on macs, or the vast majority of corporations that provide almost everything in your life?
flaresignal:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on May 31, 2009, 03:57:55 AM ---This "they", does it mean the few companies that make/sell software on macs, or the vast majority of corporations that provide almost everything in your life?
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Who said they were mutually exclusive?
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