Of course, Windows has UI standards. It is just, XCode forces you to conform to the OS X UI standards right from the beginning.
Apple and MS are the actual end user GUI inventors, they both have different opinions on where things should be. I am one of OS X users who thinks pushing OS X scheme to Windows is really stupid and childish especially considering the extra work they had to do with all those weird hacks.
IMHO they changed their mind and Safari 4 windows success compared to earlier ones really made them think twice about it.
The application you talk about is Word 6 for MacOS. As Mac users keep asking for the "full windows thing" , MS have sit and directly converted the Win32 application to MacOS. The result was a disaster. Just like they asked for Outlook for years and now they got it, Of course, this time, MS got their lesson and even using Webkit etc. to render mails I heard. Of course, Office for Mac is an Amazon chart topper except the OS X major release times so that should tell you either "I hate ms office os x" guys are lying or BillG keeps buying them:)
If SVG doesn't have the things what Flash designers have and use, it will stay as underdog. It is same for WebGL.
Just think about how Flash gained its position today, it is like parallel anti universe to SVG. Also, do you think MS will include anything related to OpenGL on IE/Windows? Macromedia/Adobe really know who they deal with so they keep Flash tight, 1.4 MB thing, they even count numbers like 10-30 KB (H264 wasn't included for that reason).
If WebGL or SVG ends up being same size and easy install like Flash, they have chance. See, Google guys made SVG functioning inside MS IE, just with Javascript. What did they get in return? "eww, Javascript", check the slashdot story comments if you don't believe me.
SVG and WebGL must become general technologies, open to any kind of usage, even "dancing bears" type of stuff. That is the real World and you get success that way. As a real smart phone user, I know OpenGL ES but OpenGL ES didn't get traction until iPhone came with it. You know how great SE P1i etc. class smart phones support the older version right? I could see it after 6-7 months, in a benchmark:) Nothing else. Thanks to Developer tools or Apple or just fashion, it became a generic technology on iPhone now.
Wii or any console is advertisers and content providers dream. No popular adblock hacks, no "flash video ripping", no attention issues. Why would they take measures to prevent Wii browser to embed the videos? IMHO they should start coding a special Hulu for Wii right now.
Wii is a SD device (TV speaking) that is completely (and electronically) incapable of showing HD content. So, Youtube HD is non issue.
If you speak about high end sites entirely designed on Flash, flash shops etc. that won't be really needed on Wii. I can't picture Wii user profile wondering around with that stick and clicking things. They all have PC/Mac/Linux desktops and laptops anyway.
Think of Wii as a high end smart phone. Like Nokia E90 or N97, they come with Flash Lite 3 too. I think Nintendo thinks about Flash Lite 3 games, active content acting like an app (like Reuters for Symbian) etc.
Quoting a kid who got confused whether to buy Linux netbook or Win XP netbook: "Does this (linux) play Youtube too?". I know Flash developers hate it but it is what Wii owners will expect and cheer about.
If you look at the situation in different way, Apple did exactly the same to their own G5 users (lets forget G4-), even worse since G5 Macs are freaking Desktop computers/Workstations.
Snow Leopard _is_ possible on G5 if Apple spends considerable (even for them) amount of money, hires thousands of PowerPC developers, pay dozens of companies for code licenses... All for? Us, remaining G5 users that lots of developers are semi happy to abandon.
I hope I could express my feelings and understanding same time but let me state again. Apple, abandoned their PowerPC G5 users for the new OS. Of course, Leopard (10.5) will be supported/updated for years from now on, perhaps it could break Windows records as 10.6 is built on 10.5.
It is a game console/home entertainment device and if you look at the submitters tone, you can also guess the other reason: Lack of community feedback/thank you/positive words. Guy started with DRM, ended up with Rootkit, for God's sake...
Meta moderation is not re-moderation of posts, it is used to hunt down the moderator abusers and people not understanding what moderation really is. You moderate the moderator in fact. So, just because poor guy says "Firefox crashes" and talks completely on topic about a different focus developers should have rather than cosmetic stuff and gets "dugg down" as troll, you will notice it and tell it is not fair.
I know it needs considerable time but that is why this and limited Karma prevented Slashdot from becoming some Bangalore PR company outlet, astroturfer playground like other sites.
OS X users have Camino solution. It is a Cocoa browser running Gecko engine. While guy is working on Chrome for OS X, he didn't give up his Camino and users.
I bet it is perfectly possible to make a Win32 browser using Mozilla engine but that time, XUL magic will be gone, just like Camino for OS X. While I am perfectly happy without extensions, it would really bother some people. I am saying majority of users are really used to Firefox UI and they like it, as far as I have seen. Even gigantic back button is a welcome change. Majority of users aren't slashdot types you know.
OS X does have UI standards and it somehow pushes them to developers, on Windows, it is not the same deal.
Even Apple admitted that fact and Safari for Windows tries to use Windows native controls. I didn't look deeply to it but as it comes from a company who insisted on iTunes/Quicktime UI on Win32 for years, it is a big deal.
No need to be some kind of insider to predict Quicktime X for Windows will follow the same attitude and iTunes X will follow.
So are you claiming Firefox developers invented an application that doesn't crash? Should he paste 300 line crash reports each time he talks about his browser crashing?
For example, Apple did release the very same, boring looking Safari for Snow Leopard with one extra feature. Flash/Plugins/Java applets can't crash it since they run in separate thread. What about implementing THAT instead of Windows 7 UI tricks while 30% of global www users are perfectly happy with your default theme?
If we speak about UI evolution, fine... What about helping Cairo Project so OS X Firefox users see the text rendered same way as their other OS X browsers/apps? What about listening to international users issues with characters which hasn't been fixed for years?
That is exactly why we must meta moderate like crazy these days. Troll has a very strict explanation and believe or not, it means exactly same on slashdot.
These idiots really confuse Slashdot moderation with digg down&up while Slashdot does make a favor to them, overrated and underrated are exactly for that purpose.
There are unhappy people with every kind of browser&application out there and yes, in this age, a browser should be really fast, simple to use and stable having very good standards support. It is valid for every browser out there. It is not just Firefox who doesn't get people's concerns, I have heard first time that system's default browser can't download files. It is Safari for Snow Leopard. Way to go Apple... All of this for run a freaking in 64bit mode, hurry of release to show finger to MS. See Firefox loving moderator? Every browser these days are a bit disconnected from users actual needs and demands.
If you compare Symbolics machines to the machines of these days (including SGI), it was like alien technology. No wonder they were first to adopt domain name before WWW and many other technologies.
Back in 1992 or 1993, I saw Symbolics machine in a very high end animation guys office. He said to his friend (who I have tailed) "let me show something", turned on a HD monitor and started to show his animations in 1080P full glory. If anyone from AV scene, it is Grafitti Design from Istanbul.
When I went to his back office, I saw a tower having "Symbolics" brand, it was like 2x big ATX case and the room was needing its own air conditioner.
That LISP machine was really something from future. Oh I also made mistake of talking about my Amiga 1200 to a guy in such level;) That is how I remember the year and my shame.
(as Opera Desktop 10 shipped, their site getting a bit hammered now, check later if you wish)
It is a real browser, just like iPhone Safari. As a bonus, it will have ''turbo'' (mobile compressing/reformatting proxy) too. Skyfire on the other hand, is a shell for a Desktop mozilla, which does amazing things like playing flash videos no matter whatever format they are. I also loved its approach of unified search/url bar. I hope Desktop browsers will steal it:)
As a Symbian owner, I don't think MS will drop Windows Mobile. It is their most prestigious Windows yet without any kind of evil security issue so far and MS only companies love it.
Both Bing and Yahoo aren't bad search engines. Especially Bing, they really missed a chance there it seems. The local search (language based) is really amazing, it passed some real interesting tests here.
If MS could figure the insane amount of "tech support", "driver" searches and gave it some attention just like celebrities, we would have a winner there. Of course, if they could find a way to eliminate "pay $$$ to see this page" junk and their abuse of search engine listings.
I am already sick of SEO market abuse and not using Google for a long time. If my Avast search results in some questionable sites (all flagged as malware/spam), I will use something else.
Before I forget, Yahoo and Bing search are hopefully merging, I hope Yahoo isn't stupid to rm -rf entire thing before merging to MS search. Some real nice touches will be wasted.
One of the World's most compact, lightweight and fast browsers will be included in that gigantic bundle DVD (yes, CD not enough) which I noticed most Sony users/fans hate, especially after Vista/Win7.
I am afraid to ask if Sony will provide updates or Google? In case of Google, welcome to "check updates for every 2 hours", in case of Sony, security updates not shipped for weeks...
This really makes no sense both for Google and Sony, maker of high end multimedia laptops. Normally, each Chrome install benefits us, Apple users (Webkit based) but this thing really doesn't make too much sense. Especially imagining compatibility hell Sony users will live when they browse Sony support pages themselves. I had to run IE under Virtual PC 7 (PPC) just couple of months ago, to help a Vaio emergency.
The most developers are stupid than. Interestingly none of the software I use (including open source) plans to drop 10.5 soon, at least until Apple drops it which you can understand when iLife suite doesn't support 10.5.
I always pick good software companies and good, real OS X developers. They aren't so trendy types and not windows converts. I wouldn't be surprisd a bit when couple of software drops 10.5 support in coming months but I don't use them anyway. If I was on Intel, I wouldn't still use, trust me on that.
10.6 is built on 10.5, that is what Apple says. That is a signal for developers, even if they don't have the expensive developer account for beta seeds. Do you know how many software use Leopard (10.5) features let alone to use 10.6 exclusive ones? For example VLC folks dropped 10.4 support for a basic reason, gcc 4.2 LVM didn't ship for 10.4 and they couldn't find a way. On the other hand, Core Player, MPlayer, Apple Quicktime keeps 10.4 support. That is what I say when I talk about amateurs and trendy types. Even OSS included.
BTW this new generation (Win 7, SL) is built on same principles, do not re-invent the wheel, fix it and add some features. Ask if any Windows developers think of dropping Vista support when Win 7 ships. Win 7 is same deal too, it is built on Vista.
Most new software as direct conversions from Windows versions? E.g. EA games? Yes. Also, lets not forget G5 is a great CPU but of course, it can't keep up with the new Intel desktop CPUs. Intel's job is that, even AMD can't go near the Intel high end right now. Absolutely, the people who upgraded their PowerPCs to Leopard (10.5) are in same area as 10.6 is designed in a way that supporting it doesn't mean you have to drop 10.5 support. It wasn't same deal on 10.4--10.5 transtition. Of course, software requiring (note, requiring), only possible with OpenCL, grand central is out of the question. If a Developer drops 10.5 support just because 10.6 shipped while it is possible to support 10.5 with fallback etc. strategies, he is a complete idiot amateur. I am sorry for his customers, that is all. Look to goodly written commercial software and even shareware system requirements. You will be amazed.
If you were a G5 owner, you wouldn't want a "pure 64bit" OS.
First, there is NO ADVANTAGE, no kind of "2x more registers when run in 64bit".
Second, thanks to the vision of IBM/Apple/Motorola, PowerPC was already designed with 64bit in mind but perfectly capable of running 32bit software without any kind of limitations.
Third, there were absolutely nothing stopping any developer to release 64bit versions of software, right on Leopard,not snow leopard. Adobe did it? Nope! Even while Apple gives them perfect toolset on Snow Leopard, they use the opportunity to whine, use false information, confusion to drop support for CS3. Adobe can release 32/64 Intel/PPC binary that can run both on OS X 10.5 and 10.6 right now. Don't be fooled, just see XCode 3.x on Leopard.
Fourth, IBM/Mot did almost nothing regarding CUDA, OpenCL, making things easier for multi core programming (grand central) as their focus is either enterprise or dying phone business (mot case). Lets say Apple decides to do a last favour to G5 owners and release Snow Leopard. It would be a total rip off with the stuff that isn't there and possibly will never be. In case of IBM, we speak about a company who produces a perfectly good high performance compiler (XL) and still allows their dealers to list it with $600 price until recently.
Fifth and most important of all. G5 and POWER doesn't like unnecessary 64 bit. If "zip" you use won't have to deal with 4GB+ of memory, it better stay as 32bit binary since in some cases, it can run half speed. Pure 64bit need is a Intel thing, not related to any other CPU arch. So, th-erotically speaking and if Adobe and others weren't complete idiots lacking rivalship, you would want Adobe Photoshop CS5 in 64bit checked (via Finder) on G5 Leopard to deal with 39 mpixel RAW images but you would want your kernel and other stuff in 32bit.
Oh what happens when 10.7 ships, Apple drops 10.5 support even ignoring security issues? There is Linux and BSD. I would pick one, donate some good money and start torrenting it.
It really sounds like some professional troll AC wrote it.
Anyway, as cold war is back, I don't believe anything until some Venezuela guy actually living there says "yes, games are banned". In fact, one shouldn't believe that too.
The country had some kind of media coup, they (and we) have all right to be paranoid about these stories. I don't care if AFP reports it. They fooled the entire planet one time, yes the media. There are couple of excellent documentaries related to that coup attempt, it is like parallel universe they aired over TV until they totally lost hope and run away to the foreign countries who supported their attempt.
I don't guarantee anything but, as Leopard which you boo boo is a Unix 03 compliant operating system with entire toolchain to support open source software, Fink Project and Macports did considerable amount of work to make automated package management.
I know Fink and it has some Palm related software but I have never,ever saw a Palm in my life to begin with so I can't guarantee anything.
So, no need to go Linux just to have Palm support. While people buy OS X, they also buy UNIX.
I know one way or another, you can get Sync support under snow leopard but let me tell you something. If I was a Palm owner, I would be having very nice and polite communication with Palm Inc. over this. They should spend money to hire couple of Cocoa/OS X developers rather than renting some astroturfers and shady blogs.
Apple is run by a guy who saw employees staring to legendary macs and decided to "throw them away" to computer museum saying they should look to future instead of past.
Like or not, that is the attitude and in fact, if you ask me, it always pays off.
Just an entry from my system.log " Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz"
In Apple land, if you ignore it enough time, one day your application will simply won't launch or crash (informatively) and of course, that time, blogs are open handedly waiting for your whining and slashdot submission:)
It is not heavy lifting either. Requirements for developing Sync support on OS X is as follows:
1) Mac Mini (as in cheapest Apple and good developer machine) 2) OS X Install DVD (has developer tools) 3) Double Click Developer tools and install them
There are examples included, debugging tools specifically designed for iSync and even some packager. Of course, if Palm decides that PalmOS devices should act like iPhone and sync with iTunes, it is their decision and insanity:)
Adobe has no rival in the scene so that is why they can do these things, very easily. Basic as that.
Who you should ask is the professionals who actually purchases the products and make money with them, don't ask people who pays $0 and will simply do $0 upgrade to CS4. You know what I mean.
Firefox'es success is mainly tied to their focus on filling end user needs, listening to end users for suggestions instead of replying .
If this is a problem enough to make people stay on old version, it should be fixed somehow instead of blogging or joking about it. Think like they are your customers while you don't actually sell a product and treat them same way.
Do you know how Cisco etc. survived in darkest days of dotcom crash? Who needed the best routers and servers to serve their customers?
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Of course, Windows has UI standards. It is just, XCode forces you to conform to the OS X UI standards right from the beginning.
Apple and MS are the actual end user GUI inventors, they both have different opinions on where things should be. I am one of OS X users who thinks pushing OS X scheme to Windows is really stupid and childish especially considering the extra work they had to do with all those weird hacks.
IMHO they changed their mind and Safari 4 windows success compared to earlier ones really made them think twice about it.
The application you talk about is Word 6 for MacOS. As Mac users keep asking for the "full windows thing" , MS have sit and directly converted the Win32 application to MacOS. The result was a disaster. Just like they asked for Outlook for years and now they got it, Of course, this time, MS got their lesson and even using Webkit etc. to render mails I heard. Of course, Office for Mac is an Amazon chart topper except the OS X major release times so that should tell you either "I hate ms office os x" guys are lying or BillG keeps buying them :)
If SVG doesn't have the things what Flash designers have and use, it will stay as underdog. It is same for WebGL.
Just think about how Flash gained its position today, it is like parallel anti universe to SVG. Also, do you think MS will include anything related to OpenGL on IE/Windows? Macromedia/Adobe really know who they deal with so they keep Flash tight, 1.4 MB thing, they even count numbers like 10-30 KB (H264 wasn't included for that reason).
If WebGL or SVG ends up being same size and easy install like Flash, they have chance. See, Google guys made SVG functioning inside MS IE, just with Javascript. What did they get in return? "eww, Javascript", check the slashdot story comments if you don't believe me.
SVG and WebGL must become general technologies, open to any kind of usage, even "dancing bears" type of stuff. That is the real World and you get success that way. As a real smart phone user, I know OpenGL ES but OpenGL ES didn't get traction until iPhone came with it. You know how great SE P1i etc. class smart phones support the older version right? I could see it after 6-7 months, in a benchmark :) Nothing else. Thanks to Developer tools or Apple or just fashion, it became a generic technology on iPhone now.
I see Opera, still a small company compared to others have sponsored the event and they are one of the earliest ones to support SVG inside browser.
Result? Not even mentioned in scoop. No matter what they do, what they invent, they never get mentioned anyway.
Wii or any console is advertisers and content providers dream. No popular adblock hacks, no "flash video ripping", no attention issues. Why would they take measures to prevent Wii browser to embed the videos? IMHO they should start coding a special Hulu for Wii right now.
Wii is a SD device (TV speaking) that is completely (and electronically) incapable of showing HD content. So, Youtube HD is non issue.
If you speak about high end sites entirely designed on Flash, flash shops etc. that won't be really needed on Wii. I can't picture Wii user profile wondering around with that stick and clicking things. They all have PC/Mac/Linux desktops and laptops anyway.
Think of Wii as a high end smart phone. Like Nokia E90 or N97, they come with Flash Lite 3 too. I think Nintendo thinks about Flash Lite 3 games, active content acting like an app (like Reuters for Symbian) etc.
Quoting a kid who got confused whether to buy Linux netbook or Win XP netbook: "Does this (linux) play Youtube too?". I know Flash developers hate it but it is what Wii owners will expect and cheer about.
If you look at the situation in different way, Apple did exactly the same to their own G5 users (lets forget G4-), even worse since G5 Macs are freaking Desktop computers/Workstations.
Snow Leopard _is_ possible on G5 if Apple spends considerable (even for them) amount of money, hires thousands of PowerPC developers, pay dozens of companies for code licenses... All for? Us, remaining G5 users that lots of developers are semi happy to abandon.
I hope I could express my feelings and understanding same time but let me state again. Apple, abandoned their PowerPC G5 users for the new OS. Of course, Leopard (10.5) will be supported/updated for years from now on, perhaps it could break Windows records as 10.6 is built on 10.5.
It is a game console/home entertainment device and if you look at the submitters tone, you can also guess the other reason: Lack of community feedback/thank you/positive words. Guy started with DRM, ended up with Rootkit, for God's sake...
Meta moderation is not re-moderation of posts, it is used to hunt down the moderator abusers and people not understanding what moderation really is. You moderate the moderator in fact. So, just because poor guy says "Firefox crashes" and talks completely on topic about a different focus developers should have rather than cosmetic stuff and gets "dugg down" as troll, you will notice it and tell it is not fair.
I know it needs considerable time but that is why this and limited Karma prevented Slashdot from becoming some Bangalore PR company outlet, astroturfer playground like other sites.
OS X users have Camino solution. It is a Cocoa browser running Gecko engine. While guy is working on Chrome for OS X, he didn't give up his Camino and users.
I bet it is perfectly possible to make a Win32 browser using Mozilla engine but that time, XUL magic will be gone, just like Camino for OS X. While I am perfectly happy without extensions, it would really bother some people. I am saying majority of users are really used to Firefox UI and they like it, as far as I have seen. Even gigantic back button is a welcome change. Majority of users aren't slashdot types you know.
OS X does have UI standards and it somehow pushes them to developers, on Windows, it is not the same deal.
Even Apple admitted that fact and Safari for Windows tries to use Windows native controls. I didn't look deeply to it but as it comes from a company who insisted on iTunes/Quicktime UI on Win32 for years, it is a big deal.
No need to be some kind of insider to predict Quicktime X for Windows will follow the same attitude and iTunes X will follow.
So are you claiming Firefox developers invented an application that doesn't crash? Should he paste 300 line crash reports each time he talks about his browser crashing?
For example, Apple did release the very same, boring looking Safari for Snow Leopard with one extra feature. Flash/Plugins/Java applets can't crash it since they run in separate thread. What about implementing THAT instead of Windows 7 UI tricks while 30% of global www users are perfectly happy with your default theme?
If we speak about UI evolution, fine... What about helping Cairo Project so OS X Firefox users see the text rendered same way as their other OS X browsers/apps? What about listening to international users issues with characters which hasn't been fixed for years?
That is exactly why we must meta moderate like crazy these days. Troll has a very strict explanation and believe or not, it means exactly same on slashdot.
These idiots really confuse Slashdot moderation with digg down&up while Slashdot does make a favor to them, overrated and underrated are exactly for that purpose.
There are unhappy people with every kind of browser&application out there and yes, in this age, a browser should be really fast, simple to use and stable having very good standards support. It is valid for every browser out there. It is not just Firefox who doesn't get people's concerns, I have heard first time that system's default browser can't download files. It is Safari for Snow Leopard. Way to go Apple... All of this for run a freaking in 64bit mode, hurry of release to show finger to MS. See Firefox loving moderator? Every browser these days are a bit disconnected from users actual needs and demands.
If you compare Symbolics machines to the machines of these days (including SGI), it was like alien technology. No wonder they were first to adopt domain name before WWW and many other technologies.
It was a known brand, in very high end scene.
Back in 1992 or 1993, I saw Symbolics machine in a very high end animation guys office. He said to his friend (who I have tailed) "let me show something", turned on a HD monitor and started to show his animations in 1080P full glory. If anyone from AV scene, it is Grafitti Design from Istanbul.
When I went to his back office, I saw a tower having "Symbolics" brand, it was like 2x big ATX case and the room was needing its own air conditioner.
That LISP machine was really something from future. Oh I also made mistake of talking about my Amiga 1200 to a guy in such level ;) That is how I remember the year and my shame.
There is a decent browser (2 in fact,check upcoming Skyfire) for Windows Mobile, it is Opera 9
http://www.opera.com/mobile/
(as Opera Desktop 10 shipped, their site getting a bit hammered now, check later if you wish)
It is a real browser, just like iPhone Safari. As a bonus, it will have ''turbo'' (mobile compressing/reformatting proxy) too. Skyfire on the other hand, is a shell for a Desktop mozilla, which does amazing things like playing flash videos no matter whatever format they are. I also loved its approach of unified search/url bar. I hope Desktop browsers will steal it :)
As a Symbian owner, I don't think MS will drop Windows Mobile. It is their most prestigious Windows yet without any kind of evil security issue so far and MS only companies love it.
If I just knew what makes Google "good guys"... It is like everyone else knows something but I am missing it.
You can't reach size of Google by being "good". Just tell me a prophet who died rich? (except that sci stuff)
Both Bing and Yahoo aren't bad search engines. Especially Bing, they really missed a chance there it seems. The local search (language based) is really amazing, it passed some real interesting tests here.
If MS could figure the insane amount of "tech support", "driver" searches and gave it some attention just like celebrities, we would have a winner there. Of course, if they could find a way to eliminate "pay $$$ to see this page" junk and their abuse of search engine listings.
I am already sick of SEO market abuse and not using Google for a long time. If my Avast search results in some questionable sites (all flagged as malware/spam), I will use something else.
Before I forget, Yahoo and Bing search are hopefully merging, I hope Yahoo isn't stupid to rm -rf entire thing before merging to MS search. Some real nice touches will be wasted.
One of the World's most compact, lightweight and fast browsers will be included in that gigantic bundle DVD (yes, CD not enough) which I noticed most Sony users/fans hate, especially after Vista/Win7.
I am afraid to ask if Sony will provide updates or Google? In case of Google, welcome to "check updates for every 2 hours", in case of Sony, security updates not shipped for weeks...
This really makes no sense both for Google and Sony, maker of high end multimedia laptops. Normally, each Chrome install benefits us, Apple users (Webkit based) but this thing really doesn't make too much sense. Especially imagining compatibility hell Sony users will live when they browse Sony support pages themselves. I had to run IE under Virtual PC 7 (PPC) just couple of months ago, to help a Vaio emergency.
The most developers are stupid than. Interestingly none of the software I use (including open source) plans to drop 10.5 soon, at least until Apple drops it which you can understand when iLife suite doesn't support 10.5.
I always pick good software companies and good, real OS X developers. They aren't so trendy types and not windows converts. I wouldn't be surprisd a bit when couple of software drops 10.5 support in coming months but I don't use them anyway. If I was on Intel, I wouldn't still use, trust me on that.
10.6 is built on 10.5, that is what Apple says. That is a signal for developers, even if they don't have the expensive developer account for beta seeds. Do you know how many software use Leopard (10.5) features let alone to use 10.6 exclusive ones? For example VLC folks dropped 10.4 support for a basic reason, gcc 4.2 LVM didn't ship for 10.4 and they couldn't find a way. On the other hand, Core Player, MPlayer, Apple Quicktime keeps 10.4 support. That is what I say when I talk about amateurs and trendy types. Even OSS included.
BTW this new generation (Win 7, SL) is built on same principles, do not re-invent the wheel, fix it and add some features. Ask if any Windows developers think of dropping Vista support when Win 7 ships. Win 7 is same deal too, it is built on Vista.
Most new software as direct conversions from Windows versions? E.g. EA games? Yes. Also, lets not forget G5 is a great CPU but of course, it can't keep up with the new Intel desktop CPUs. Intel's job is that, even AMD can't go near the Intel high end right now. Absolutely, the people who upgraded their PowerPCs to Leopard (10.5) are in same area as 10.6 is designed in a way that supporting it doesn't mean you have to drop 10.5 support. It wasn't same deal on 10.4--10.5 transtition. Of course, software requiring (note, requiring), only possible with OpenCL, grand central is out of the question. If a Developer drops 10.5 support just because 10.6 shipped while it is possible to support 10.5 with fallback etc. strategies, he is a complete idiot amateur. I am sorry for his customers, that is all. Look to goodly written commercial software and even shareware system requirements. You will be amazed.
If you were a G5 owner, you wouldn't want a "pure 64bit" OS.
First, there is NO ADVANTAGE, no kind of "2x more registers when run in 64bit".
Second, thanks to the vision of IBM/Apple/Motorola, PowerPC was already designed with 64bit in mind but perfectly capable of running 32bit software without any kind of limitations.
Third, there were absolutely nothing stopping any developer to release 64bit versions of software, right on Leopard,not snow leopard. Adobe did it? Nope! Even while Apple gives them perfect toolset on Snow Leopard, they use the opportunity to whine, use false information, confusion to drop support for CS3. Adobe can release 32/64 Intel/PPC binary that can run both on OS X 10.5 and 10.6 right now. Don't be fooled, just see XCode 3.x on Leopard.
Fourth, IBM/Mot did almost nothing regarding CUDA, OpenCL, making things easier for multi core programming (grand central) as their focus is either enterprise or dying phone business (mot case). Lets say Apple decides to do a last favour to G5 owners and release Snow Leopard. It would be a total rip off with the stuff that isn't there and possibly will never be. In case of IBM, we speak about a company who produces a perfectly good high performance compiler (XL) and still allows their dealers to list it with $600 price until recently.
Fifth and most important of all. G5 and POWER doesn't like unnecessary 64 bit. If "zip" you use won't have to deal with 4GB+ of memory, it better stay as 32bit binary since in some cases, it can run half speed. Pure 64bit need is a Intel thing, not related to any other CPU arch. So, th-erotically speaking and if Adobe and others weren't complete idiots lacking rivalship, you would want Adobe Photoshop CS5 in 64bit checked (via Finder) on G5 Leopard to deal with 39 mpixel RAW images but you would want your kernel and other stuff in 32bit.
Oh what happens when 10.7 ships, Apple drops 10.5 support even ignoring security issues? There is Linux and BSD. I would pick one, donate some good money and start torrenting it.
It really sounds like some professional troll AC wrote it.
Anyway, as cold war is back, I don't believe anything until some Venezuela guy actually living there says "yes, games are banned". In fact, one shouldn't believe that too.
The country had some kind of media coup, they (and we) have all right to be paranoid about these stories. I don't care if AFP reports it. They fooled the entire planet one time, yes the media. There are couple of excellent documentaries related to that coup attempt, it is like parallel universe they aired over TV until they totally lost hope and run away to the foreign countries who supported their attempt.
I don't guarantee anything but, as Leopard which you boo boo is a Unix 03 compliant operating system with entire toolchain to support open source software, Fink Project and Macports did considerable amount of work to make automated package management.
I know Fink and it has some Palm related software but I have never,ever saw a Palm in my life to begin with so I can't guarantee anything.
http://www.finkproject.org/ (official site)
http://pdb.finkproject.org/ (Package Database web interface)
So, no need to go Linux just to have Palm support. While people buy OS X, they also buy UNIX.
I know one way or another, you can get Sync support under snow leopard but let me tell you something. If I was a Palm owner, I would be having very nice and polite communication with Palm Inc. over this. They should spend money to hire couple of Cocoa/OS X developers rather than renting some astroturfers and shady blogs.
Apple is run by a guy who saw employees staring to legendary macs and decided to "throw them away" to computer museum saying they should look to future instead of past.
Like or not, that is the attitude and in fact, if you ask me, it always pays off.
Just an entry from my system.log
" Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz"
In Apple land, if you ignore it enough time, one day your application will simply won't launch or crash (informatively) and of course, that time, blogs are open handedly waiting for your whining and slashdot submission :)
It is not heavy lifting either. Requirements for developing Sync support on OS X is as follows:
1) Mac Mini (as in cheapest Apple and good developer machine)
2) OS X Install DVD (has developer tools)
3) Double Click Developer tools and install them
There are examples included, debugging tools specifically designed for iSync and even some packager. Of course, if Palm decides that PalmOS devices should act like iPhone and sync with iTunes, it is their decision and insanity :)
Adobe has no rival in the scene so that is why they can do these things, very easily. Basic as that.
Who you should ask is the professionals who actually purchases the products and make money with them, don't ask people who pays $0 and will simply do $0 upgrade to CS4. You know what I mean.
Firefox'es success is mainly tied to their focus on filling end user needs, listening to end users for suggestions instead of replying .
If this is a problem enough to make people stay on old version, it should be fixed somehow instead of blogging or joking about it. Think like they are your customers while you don't actually sell a product and treat them same way.
Do you know how Cisco etc. survived in darkest days of dotcom crash? Who needed the best routers and servers to serve their customers?