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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
If you don't know why having to buy all new software and having new software work on my current Macs is a BAD thing, you need to sit and ponder awhile.
nalysts say the move risks alienating Apple's historically loyal users. Software now built for Macs will have to be rewritten and then may not work on older Apple machines.
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actually the compiler is going to enable you to write your software for powerpc and x86 simultaneously so it's not really going to matter. the only way it will matter is for those companies that don't bother to try and compile a x86 version of their software and maybe you won't be able to get it. but even that is going to 1 year away before we start seeing the 1st macs with intel processors and 2 years before all of them are. most software and important programs are updated more than once every few years. so it's not a big deal at all, except in that it might open some more doors for the hardware and developing of the software which could be good. it will allow apple to concentrate on the presenting of it's software as superior to that of MS because the processor speed and hardware issue won't exist anymore.
thanks for your time