[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Chris Olson]

Paul Russell wrote:
> Given that developers have had the Carbon API's for what, 3 years, and 
> some of them have /still/ not managed to even Carbonise their apps, let 
> alone re-write them for Cocoa, I think it will be a very long time 
> before developers would catch up with such a major change. Many would 
> probably just not bother - if they've got to do a complete re-write then 
> they might as well just re-write for Windows. This was why Carbon was so 
> crucial in preventing a mass exodus from Mac to Windows when OS X was 
> introduced. Unless Carbon can be ported to x86 then the same logic applies.
> 
> Maybe in 3 - 5 years, but not in the next year or two.

And personally, I think in 2-3 years x86 will be dead or well on it's 
way out anyway, and be replaced by x86-64
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