[Ti] Re: like hell freezing over ?

[kalirhe at umdnj.edu]

Quoting "Paul H. Yoshimune" <paul at yoshimune.com>:

> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:28:36PM -0400, kalirhe at umdnj.edu wrote:
> > And now the promise of
> > increased market share, with a greater # of developers writing/porting
> all
> > those applications that so many LOYAL people like myself could NOT get
> on
> > the Mac because developers OTHER than you and Chris would NOT write
> them
> > for us, is finally a realistic possibility!! 
> > 
> > I don't know what kind of applications you and Chris are writing, but I
> DO
> > know that in the 2 fields in which I'm working NOT A SINGLE APPLICATION
> HAS
> > BEEN AVAILABLE FOR THE MAC! Do you fathom that, John and Chris?? Know
> what
> > it's like to go to a convention and be laughed at for still using a
> Mac? Do
> > you care at all about what OTHER equally loyal Mac users had to go
> through,
> > or is it all about you, you and YOU???
> 
> ...and you think because Apple is switching to Intel processors that
> suddenly
> all those applications will work under MacOS X?  Or that there will be a
> flood of Windows developers porting their Windows apps to MacOS?

No, not immediately. and I'm sure Apple has some strategy  other than simply
switching the CPU.

I believe that we're going to see some easier portablity of applications
etc, and a gradual increase in market share due to price drops, etc.

HHK