Doobrey wrote:
glitch wrote:
Jobs is a freaking idiot. Nobody is going to buy any Macs for the next year. He easily just lost half of his loyal fanbase.
Maybe even longer than that.
Why didn't they switch to Intel when OSX came out ?
Promises from IBM that they could ramp up clockspeeds?
All their happy users upgrading to OSX, paying for new/updated software to run on it, only to be told that they'll have to do it all again in a couple of years as PPC software dries up.
I've heard "This will piss the developers off" but in light of the fact they'll probably resell a bunch of their software, this will probably be offset.
I'd love to be there when Jobs realises there's a limit to how much you can push your customers.
Customers are screaming for faster hardware, Apple was in turn screaming to IBM, IBM was in turn masterbating or playing tetris or anything else that doesn't include answering the cries for speed. This change is a response to the customers screams.
Great, there's a PPC emulator for the Intel boxes, but whats the point in buying a faster mac if it runs all your existing software at the speed of your old one? ..at least with OS4/MorphOS the 68k code ran faster.
Why emulate? This isn't really a big deal, MacOSX, and all of it's developement tools, have been running on x86 since the beginning. in house. lucky for them too, this could be a mess if that wern't the case.
The switchover shouldn't be too hard.
Universal Binaries ?? WTF, great idea Steve,I always thought PPC binaries were too small and needed padding out with useless junk :pissed:
Is having to create 2 separate archives too much hassle for developers?
Developers could do that if they want.
