Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 6, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Here's more food for thought on this subject.
>
> 1. When Apple finally rolls out 'Leopard,' how many 'tested on Intel' 
> apps do you think there will be? Seeing how Leopard ONLY RUNS ON APPLE 
> HARDWARE (see bottom of page: http://tinyurl.com/8vwvz ), how will 
> develpers test their apps? I'm sure Apple will seed a few developer 
> boxes out there, but the majority of developers will have to 'wait and 
> see' how their newly cross-compiled code runs. Not a pretty sight, 
> IMO.

I believe you can get an Intel machine from Apple very soon for testing 
if you are a developer.  I thought I read somewhere during the keynote 
that you could get Pentium machine running Tiger in order to test.

> 2. ... I expect all software MUST be upgraded when Leopard ships. IMO, 
> this is a big of an upgrade as the OS9 to BSD UNIX OSX.

I don't know that this is correct.  Rosetta seems to take care of 
running current software without any recompile.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
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