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June 12, 2005
How Apple-Intel Will Affect Developers
Brent Simmons, creator of my favorite Mac software NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, talks about how the Apple-Intel deal will affect independent developers.
Brent: "One of the things about independent developers is that they often do a great job of supporting a range of systems. Consider this: Safari with RSS runs only on Tiger, but NetNewsWire still runs on Jaguar. This isn’t some special case, this is normal for independent developers.You might say something like, ‘Oh, that’s just because Apple wants to sell operating systems and independent developers want to sell to everybody, even people who don’t upgrade.’
To that I’d say, ‘Yes! You’re right! We have a very strong incentive to support different systems.’ It’s just plain good business sense."
Posted by Loyd at June 12, 2005 12:45 AM
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