[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[Shawn King]

On 6/8/05 9:51 AM, "John Griffin" <jwegriffin at mac.com> wrote:

> Even plain ol¹ end users will notice the downgrade of applications to
> the inferior platform.

What downgrade? What "inferior platform"? In your *opinion* it may be but
there is not a shred of evidence to support what you are saying. So it's all
just puffery.

> If you read the preamble to the new
> Development Kit, it is  plain as day that since PowerPC is being
> abandoned, so is the vision of 64-bit processing! Apple refers to
> IA-32 in the transition process but no mention of 64-bit
> architecture. 

So? Does that mean Apple will *never* do it? Or maybe, they aren't doing it
right now?

Unless you have a crystal ball and/or know what's in Steve Jobs' head, you
can't say Apple is abandoning 64-bit processing.

And, I will make the statement again - this is a list for those using the
Titanium PowerBooks. Not many of us really care and I'd bet, not many even
know why you and Christ have yourselves all bunched up about it (and please,
no. Don't explain it to us in excruciating details as I know you want to).

> Also, developers who have relied on such routines that
> are provided to AltiVec, etc. will have to dumb down their
> applications to run on Intel.

Or recode their apps.

> I stand firmly by my statement that developers are being called on to
> downgrade their applications so they will work on an inferior platform!

Stand by anything you'd like. That doesn't make you any more correct. You
have no facts to back up your "inferior platform" claim. Not the claim that
all developers are being called to do any such thing. These machines have
not been seen or tested by *anyone* outside of Apple.
-- 
Shawn King
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