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How Apple handled Intel announcement
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What's your opinion on Apple's handling of the Intel transition/announcement?
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It actually gave enough time for me to say "I should buy now to weather the storm"
I would rather Apple get it out there and give the developers a few years to get their apps up to snuff. Our OS is working well... and I don't see any major issues for the next few months.
The ONLY issue I had was ANOTHER fast OS X upgrade. 18 months? I thought they said they were slowing down [perhaps my math is bad]?
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Good timing IMHO.
• There is still time to get up to speed before Longhorn. Microsoft hasn't go a lot to compete with in the meanwhile.
• Even if pros will be cautious regarding PowerMacs and PowerBooks, the iPod/Mini thing should keep the marketshare/sales numbers reasonably nice. Hopefully high enough to reassure developers that there are buyers of Mac software titles.
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Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh
The ONLY issue I had was ANOTHER fast OS X upgrade. 18 months? I thought they said they were slowing down [perhaps my math is bad]?
It used to be 12 months IIRC, so yes they have slowed down...technically.
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Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh
It actually gave enough time for me to say "I should buy now to weather the storm"
I would rather Apple get it out there and give the developers a few years to get their apps up to snuff. Our OS is working well... and I don't see any major issues for the next few months.
The ONLY issue I had was ANOTHER fast OS X upgrade. 18 months? I thought they said they were slowing down [perhaps my math is bad]?
They havent made a statement on when 10.5 will be out, so no, they arent rushing it.
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Originally Posted by Thain Esh Kelch
They havent made a statement on when 10.5 will be out, so no, they arent rushing it.
Jobs said end of 2006/beginning of 2007. It seems to me like they want to have a new version out by the time Longhorn is released.
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I see the timing as a two-edged sword. Yes, announcing ahead-of-the-fact will probably hurt sales in the short term, but they had to get developers on board before hand. They couldn't very well just announce new hardware that there were no apps to run natively on besides the iApps, and if they just sprung it on software developers one day that as of 11:00 AM, they were releasing new hardware that their apps wouldn't run on, there would have been a riot.
The timing was done purposefully in order to give developers a year to get up to speed with the new architecture. It's painful, but it's probably the only way this could be done, realistically.
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What the &#^# is the #*#*#ing Osbourne Effect?!
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