Re: XCode for Jaguar?
Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- Subject: Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- From: Chaz McGarvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:00:26 -0600
On Oct 25, 2003, at 5:21 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
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).
That's one of Mac OS X's downfalls in the eyes of many users of other
operating systems, as I'm sure you're aware. The "yearly Apple tax"
I've heard it called because so many new apps require the latest and
greatest. I discourage this practice where I can, even though as a
developer I probably will have the latest.
Just a random, somewhat off-topic comment.
- Chaz
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