And that's your number one reason why Apple will never be a big player in the enterprise market.
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And that's your number one reason why Apple will never be a big player in the enterprise market.
Positives and Negatives
There is at least one good reason for Apple to give up on Rosetta.
Positives of Apple giving up on Rosetta:
- the OS code is cleaner, and thus easier and cheaper to maintain.
Negatives of Apple giving up on Rosetta:
- There are plenty of programs that aren't cocoa'ized.
- There aren't good third party solutions for carbon or System 9 apps.
There is at least one good reason for Apple to give up on Rosetta.
Positives of Apple giving up on Rosetta:
- the OS code is cleaner, and thus easier and cheaper to maintain.
Negatives of Apple giving up on Rosetta:
- There are plenty of programs that aren't cocoa'ized.
- There aren't good third party solutions for carbon or System 9 apps.
Their business strategy seems to working just fine without enterprise.
- They are the third largest sellers of PCs in the USA.
- They dominate portable music devices.
- They dominate online purchases of music.
- They dominate the tablet market, having sold more iPads in 10 months than all other tablets combined for the last 10 years.
- They are a huge player in the smartphone business.
- They are quickly becoming a huge player in the portable gaming business.
- They are the second most valuable company in the United States.
When I think of the Enterprise market, all I can think of are companies that are in stagnation or are tiny shadows of their former greatness. Sun, IBM, HP, Microsoft. Where exactly are these companies going? Nowhere.
In October 1998, Microsoft (MSFT) hit $26/share. It's still there today, over 12 years later. Counting for inflation, it's actually done nothing but drop in value.
As an Apple shareholder, I can only say that they are doing everything just fine.
The Carbon framework is available on any of the 32-bit process that Apple supports. Intel is one of those 32-bit process. However, you have to do byte-swapping if you want to use some Carbon functions. Porting from Carbon(PowerPC) to Carbon(Intel) should be fairly easy if using Xcode, but porting to Cocoa is a bit harder. And converting MPW projects (Carbon CFM) is going to be a pain.
I was able to get the Downloader to run on another Mac (10.6) and download the installers, however the installers are still PPC!!! The Installers directories say 1.21b, which is supposed to be a Universal Binary, but run I try and run it throws the "PowerPC Apps are no longer supported..."
I think I'm out of luck and will just continue boot-campin' it until Blizzard comes out with an actual intel installer (crossing fingers!)
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I think he was talking about Warcraft III, not Rosetta. Rosetta will take a bit more work than copying over /usr/libexec/oah/translate and the shims. Warcraft III should be fine, although launching The Frozen Throne expansion might be a bit harder.
I'm really sick of this perception, and pretty surprised to hear it in the games forum of all places. Check out how much better games run on Windows and tell me it's "laden down with cruft".
I love OS X more than any OS by a long shot. But let's be real here. Also, Snow Leopard was mostly a speed upgrade, remember? If ditching Rosetta provided such an improvement by "removing cruft" they would have ditched it in SL to further promote "X% faster than Leopard!!". Because the same argument (if you need PPC run the older version) would have still applied.
Unless you have a magical Moo2 version it is already toast. I have checked all my executables and they all went dead (read: I get the "This environment wont run Classic Programs") when I upgraded to 10.5. Or?