Snow Leopard to leave PowerPC users out in the cold?

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Well, every platform eventually comes to an end

It does not mean that because the developer tools are
"Intel only" the environment will be unable to generate
PowerPC binaries, e.g., the gcc compiler can emit binaries
for all manner of CPU architectures.

Apple simply may not want to put in the QA cycles to
insure that its developer tools run on PowerPC machines
given that most likely 95% (or more) of developers who put
out Cocoa binaries probably have an Intel box on their
desktop. Developers are very wont to have the "latest" on
their desktop, more so in Mac OS X.

Even so, a company can't support users of old platforms
forever.

The constant upgrade cycle in technology is nothing new,
take PC gaming where if you don't have last month's uber
video card, your experience with the latest hot Windows
game may be lackluster. As a perfect example, in August
2006 I purchased a $500 nVidia 7950GX2 which featured
dual GPUs and the ability to do SLI. A couple of months
later Relic Entertainment released "Company of Heroes".
Without SLI, CoH rated my system "Poor", with SLI,
"Average".

My point? Cry me a river.

-M

Posted by: betelgeuse68   Posted on: 06/11/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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