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2 possible reasons: 1. so they could be prepared to rapidly enable it if market exigencies required them to (say, if webGL experiences for whatever reason star
by sirkneeland 13y ago
2 possible reasons:
1. so they could be prepared to rapidly enable it if market exigencies required them to (say, if webGL experiences for whatever reason started blowing up on competitor platforms).
2. they have some other, grander plan behind webGL that we don't know about yet. Maybe someday they want Xcode to be the premier web app dev tool
Remember this is from the company that developed Mac OS X in parallel for PowerPC and x86 "just in case"...clearly they plan for the future
- foldor 13y agoThey didn't develop them in parallel. One programmer took it upon himself alone, and without telling Apple, to do the initial port to x86.[1] [1] Insider cuts into Apple, peels off Intel Mac OS X port secrets - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/apple_project_marklar_secrets/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/apple_project_markla...
- mixmastamyk 13y agoNeXT ran on intel so it probably wasn't too difficult.
- sirkneeland 13y agoInteresting background stuff! I didn't know, thanks for sharing.