On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Chris Idou <idou...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I had a 50,000 line Cocoa program, and I thought about restricting it to > Intel for that reason, but then I thought heck, I'll build it universal and > throw it out there. Not a single bug reported due to PPC, and a few happy > customers for my trouble. > > I don't see the point in dropping PPC support, unless you have special issues.
Yours is the only judgment that matters in that decision. It comes down to quite a few tradeoffs, including whether you have an established testing infrastructure, whether Snow Leopard includes some support which would make your life much easier (decrease time-to-market, improve code quality, etc.), and others. I can't elaborate on the reasons for our decision, but I can link you to the Seattle Times article in which the decision was made public: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009727557_applesnow24.html I guess all that really can be said is "use your best judgment." There's a lot of engineering considerations to be made when deciding to cut backwards compatibility, but there are quite a few non-enginering concerns as well. Above all, don't take our software update data as some sort of gospel; it may be utterly unrepresentative of your target market, or perhaps just flat-out incorrect. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
