Apple ahead of schedule 3133
In many cases it would be cheaper, since they *already have* a Windows version.
If the Mac market isn't worth the investment, they'll leave it. That's more likely when Apple makes the investment required higher.
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That's the choice.
Mac only developers will likely chose to port, but they may also chose to devote their development efforts in the future to Windows, and avoid this problem.
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The message is that you can be one transition behind, at a penalty, but not two. Two transitions behind and you just won't run.
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The whole idea of Adobe leaving the Mac is ludicrous. Given what I suspect the platform sales breakdown for Creative Suite looks...
This is a very mature product with a large userbase; the users would almost certainly stick with Adobe product.
And if that means Windows, then Windows it is. That's the way this business always works.
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Why not? I'd expect a lot of this: users who need to replace their machine can get Photoshop at full speed on Intel *today*; why should they wait? Why should they run in emulation?
Sure, some users won't need to replace their machine, and they may still be there when the Photoshop is out, with Universal Binary support. But how many that is depends on how long it takes. If it takes years from now, a large part of the userbase may be gone.
(If it takes weeks from now... then, never mind)
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