>> rabid anti PC mentality they have is disturbing.
I’m not so much disturbed by it, as amused.
Then again, I cut my teeth professionally writing software for the Mac. Up until about ‘93, that was pretty much the only platform I worked on.
Don’t use Macs at all anymore though.
I’m not so much disturbed by it, as amused.>> rabid anti PC mentality they have is disturbing.
Then again, I cut my teeth professionally writing software for the Mac. Up until about ‘93, that was pretty much the only platform I worked on.
Don’t use Macs at all anymore though.
Since the transition from the Apple II to the Macintosh Apple was snake-bit in its CPU choices. Neither the 68000 series nor the PowerPC series ever lived up to its billing in the long run. And Apple committed the folly of getting rid of its premier visionary, Steve Jobs, a couple of years before you left in '93. Full Stop.Re-enter Steve Jobs, and
The upshot is that, from 10.6 Snow Leopard on, a developer knows where he stands with Apple. He knows he'll be dealing with the standard Intel product line. He has the software facilities to tap into the capabilities of the Mac hardware, and he is operating in a Unix/Objective C framework which gives him the software development tools that Apple itself uses, and which doesn't hold back secret features for Apple's exclusive use. I'm just a user, not a developer, so I don't really know - but wouldn't you have thought that you had died and gone to heaven if that had been the context in which you wrote software for the Mac in 1990?
- The OS is transitioned from Apple proprietary to Unix with a proprietary Apple shell while holding its customer/developer base and
- Apple conceded that it didn't know more than the rest of the industry about CPUs, and adopted the industry standard Intel family. Snow Leopard completes that transition, in that it will support developers in their efforts to exploit modern multicore, 64-bit CPUs and graphics processors - and drops support for the PowerPC.