Re: XCode for Jaguar?
Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- Subject: Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:21:20 -0500
On Oct 25, 2003, at 3:51 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
And I think the new end-user features in Panther are so compelling
for so many users (speed!) that we'll see a lot of end-users
upgrading very quickly.
Hum, how do you define "very quickly"? 1 month, 6 months, 1 year (i.e.
next time the OS is probably going to see a majored revision)?
I think the early adopters will be updating within a month. And
they'll be trying to use Panther day-to-day, though they may keep a
Jaguar partition around "just in case."
I think the bulk of end-user adoption will happen in a 3- to 6-month
period, at least where the question of whether it's economical to
target Panther is concerned.
That's actually similar to the adoption curve Jaguar followed. It
shipped in late August, 2002, and in early 2003 it was reasonable to
write applications that required 10.2 or later (and usually the very
latest 10.2).
Of course, truly mass-market hundreds-of-thousands-of-licenses software
has been moving more slowly. DreamWeaver MX 2004 just shipped a few
weeks before Panther, and dropped support for everything earlier than
10.2.6. (On the Windows side, I was amused to see they still support
Windows 98. Must be ... confining.)
One of the things I think will drive Panther adoption is that I think
small utilities and applications distributed via the Internet will go
Panther-only very quickly due to new Panther Cocoa features like
NSController.
One poster on CocoaBB said that using NSArrayController he was able to
remove almost 200 lines of code from one of his document classes, and
using NSController he was able to remove almost all of the outlets in
another document class.
As more of the small utilities and applications that make Mac OS X such
a pleasant system to use require Panther, the pressure to upgrade will
go up. And hey, the fact that your Mac can get faster and look
classier with Panther doesn't hurt!
I think a similar thing is happening on the Windows platform with .NET
and Windows XP. The large applications aren't switching, what's
causing people to bite the bullet and install the .NET runtime or
upgrade to XP is the wealth of small utilities people are putting out
that require them. (Or vertical market applications, for corporate
Windows users.)
On the corporate side, Panther adoption will be driven by the fact that
new Macs are shipping with it and the manageability of an all-Panther
network is top-notch. The fact that you can develop your
mission-critical custom applications faster with Panther than any other
system (including Jaguar) is just icing on the cake. (The only fly in
the ointment here is a lack of EOF. Is there decent online
documentation for iODBC yet? I keep thinking about writing a Cocoa
wrapper.)
-- Chris
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