Re: XCode for Jaguar?
Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- Subject: Re: XCode for Jaguar?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:03:42 -0600
On Oct 26, 2003, at 4:10 AM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
If you can be 100% sure that the target is Panther only, yes, but I'm
wondering if this represents a huge percentage of the total market.
Actually, no, you don't have to be 100% sure that the target market is
Panther-only for the economics to favor a Panther-only application.
If 55% of your market is on Panther and it takes 50% as much time to
develop a Panther application, that can also be compelling. You have
to look at market size, not just market share. (This is something we
tell people about the Mac, isn't it? :) And also, there are people who
will upgrade to Panther to use great Panther-only software, so even if
most of your market isn't there now they might go there once your
application (and maybe a few others) are released.
Your issues mostly boil down to "Apple added new stuff that I can't use
on 10.2." Well, yeah. It's a new release of the operating system,
it's going to have new features. That's the way things work. You're
going to have to be careful about using them if you want your software
to run on earlier systems; fortunately, Apple provides the SDK feature
to make that relatively easy.
-- Chris
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