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Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
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Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel


  • Subject: Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
  • From: Ladd Van Tol <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:04:43 -0700

My feeling is that a much larger percentage of the base is on OS X by now -- consider all the new Macs that can't even boot OS 9.

Additionally, the pre-OS X users are not buying software in nearly the same numbers. About four years ago, I did a Carbon product that ran on OS 9 and OS X. The sales split about 20-80, in favor of OS X. It was basically not worth the considerable additional development cost to support OS 9. Subsequently, we went Cocoa, and only had a few scattered complaints.

Nowadays, you're quite safe not supporting 10.1, and I'm beginning to do mass-market products that require 10.3 or higher.

For most markets, third party developers can't quite follow Apple's approach of only running on the very newest, but if your product can gain significant functionality, or is much easier to write for a newer OS, then it may make sense to require a relatively recent OS. Also, this substantially reduces the amount of QA needed.

- Ladd

On Jul 17, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Gary (Lists) wrote:

"Peter N Lewis" wrote:


I imagine Apple has the stats to back it up - my educated guess for Interarchy
(which requires 10.2.4 or later) is that 90% are on 10.3.8 or later.



I read somewhere (can not find it now, even though I thought I saved it)
that only 30-40% of all Mac users are using OS X, with the remainder in OS9
(and a fraction in pre-9 OS's.) The majority of OSX users are university,
government and large business users.


Does that sound right?

The 'status quo-S' may be much 'quoer' than at first thought.
--
Gary
(Heck, with those stats, even I'm an "early adopter". ;)

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