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Email sent to a developer on supporting 10.6 and up

• bensummers 17y ago
  There's a possible comparison to supporting various web browsers in web apps, but I'm not sure the correlation between upgrading and spending money on software applies.
• _delirium 17y ago
  I could see this argument for dropping 10.4, but plenty of people are still on 10.5 because Apple didn't release a PPC version of 10.6.
  • andrewtj 17y ago
    I'm not sure that the people still on the PPC architecture are worth targeting. It's been 4 years since Apple switched to Intel. If their hardware needs haven't evolved in that time then I'd assume their software needs haven't changed either; that or they're on the cusp of buying a new machine anyway.
    • _delirium 17y ago
      In my case, it's because hardware seems to have stayed mostly flat over the past 5 years or so. If I bought a new portable machine to replace my 12" PowerBook, it would probably be a netbook. But today's netbooks aren't any faster than my PB, so why sideways-upgrade? I do still buy and upgrade software routinely (in some cases software upgrades have actually made my machine faster than it was years ago, e.g. with the Firefox speed improvements).