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The transition will be easy for applications that rely on Apple's APIs only, the fun will be for programs that use proprietary third party components all of whi
by jiggy2011 12y ago
The transition will be easy for applications that rely on Apple's APIs only, the fun will be for programs that use proprietary third party components all of which will need to be rebuilt, as well as all binary plugins to applications.
I can imagine this might be a huge job for some of the more heavyweight production programs for Mac , as well as AAA games.
It would basically spell doom for Parallels and other virtualization software which give Mac switchers an escape hatch back to any Windows programs they might use.
- umanwizard 12y agoAnother negative in the same vein is that it would prevent fast emulation of Windows and many Linux/BSD distributions in something like VMWare.
- dublinben 12y agoMost Linux and BSD distributions are available for ARM already.