h4ck3r+=boiRandomness HappensWhen to drop PPC support- March 23, 2008 Brent Simmons raises a question as to when developers (of currently Universal Binaries) will drop PPC support. Disregarding technical forces and business reasons, I think the best time to drop PPC support is when Apple does. MacRumorsAppleInsider posits this will be with OS X 10.6. Then you know that anyone still with a PowerPC machines isn't running the latest and greatest anyway, and is probably "fine" with no updating to the current version of your app ("This machine is stuck in 2007,...http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3486 Apple showed us how to release a platform- March 17, 2008 With the iPhone SDK announcement, Apple showed us how to launch a platform: Make it a rapid-development framework already familiar to some people. These are your first-adopters, and the people that will (in the beginning) get a lot of work with iPhone development, because they have a leg-up on the tools. Make barrier to entry very low to newbies ($100 and an Intel Mac. So from scratch, like $700.) Put $100 Million in front of people looking to develop apps on your platform. Everybody wants a..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100544/2008/03/17.html#a1267 |