Sure I understand that, and if it is the case I hope it goes well for Apple. I know when we where bitten by a similar issue by Apple (the 68k to PPC transition)

Sure I understand that, and if it is the case I hope it goes well for Apple. I know when we where bitten by a similar issue by Apple (the 68k to PPC transition) they lost a lot of customers for abruptly discontinuing support for systems that where not long dead. I know with that transition I had a 6k dollar brick after only 6 months of life. It took me a decade to come back to Apple and only after they switched to a process that was supported by other OS's, so that I would have a bail out plan. I understand they did what they had to do to survive back then, but when you eat 6K you don't have much appetite to do it again. I would hate to see a repeat of that, now that they seem to have gotten their act together, especially since they can't fall back on the we had to do it to survive excuse, which gained them a lot of forgiveness back then.