Apple ahead of schedule 3135

There'll be less of that. These transitions also make the market less attractive for a vendor to get into.

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I think that if PS does not get an Intel native version, then Apple will lose a substantial chunk of userbase.

Few users care about OSes at all. There's a small minorty that not only care about the OS, but care about it more than the apps. They may stay; but they will be very few.

I think they would try to do this; but for well established, mature apps this is very hard to do.

Is Windows emulation an improvement in some way, for these users, over Windows itself?

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PS takes a performance hit on Rosetta, and it is a performance intensive app. This means users will want the best performance, and if that is on Windows, they'll go there.

Until there's a native Photoshop on Mac-Intel, the best Photoshop performance will, inevitably, be on Windows.

Apps are what matter to users, after all, not OSes.