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