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[Robert Brenstein]

>On 6/21/05 1:54 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:
>
>>  Sorry to barge in but I can't resist seeing these over-generalizations...
>
>:-)
>
>I knew this will start big flame

Well, I don't really want to argue but I felt what you said was an 
overstatement. It might be how you feel about where Valentina is 
going but it is not fair to say such doomsay to all of us.

>There was time when MAC developer did have only MacOS 9,
>And we have smile on WIN developers which have fight with
>     win 3.1,  win 95, win NT

Well, Mac went through OS7, OS8, OS9 and their incarnations in that 
time. And Apple changed the chips several times, each change being 
smaller or bigger headache for developers, although they might have 
had less impact on end users as it was in Windows world.

>Now I think all in reverse.
>
>Windows have many years stability. But we on MacOS jump as monkeys from
>      Classic to Carbon, then to OS X Macho, then to Intel
>
>I say hardware will start to die, because I think in ONE year you will see
>the number of new apps for PPC reduced in times.

I think you are painting an awfully black picture. Even Apple plans 2 
years for the transition to Intel chips. And hardware sales are their 
staple, so they will figure out something to keep them going.

>Very soon you will see that promised feature of FAT app become more and more
>limited. Like we have see this with Carbon, which now is limited practically
>to 9.2

Sure. But look how many years passed between OSX announcement until 
Macho came. Change is inevitable and developers like you need to 
follow the trend but things don't happen overnight. The problem is of 
course how much the support of laggards should trail behind.

This was discussed not that long ago at Revolution list. The 
concensus was that practically all serious Mac developers (I 
distinguish here from hobbysts and folks that work under Windows) are 
working under OSX but a number still have large enough audiences of 
OS9 customers that they ask RunRev folks to keep OS9 version for a 
while yet. Of course, some said they dropped OS9 altogether and see 
no need for it.

Paradigma is in a similar situation. What valentina developers use 
themselves is one issue but what their customers use is another. This 
is something not to forget. And there all those small developers that 
do stuff only for themselves or their friends. But few of them hang 
on this list I suspect.

Robert