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Does this mean that all the OS 9 userbase is gone now? Those guys sure didn't 'value progress'. :D

Well, as I said, I try to resist going down this line of thought because it leads me there, and I do think it is a 'bit much'.

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You may be right.

Still, that's a very big part of the computing world. Apple seems, to me, to be enclosing themselves in a niche.

That may be their best choice at this point, of course.

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Yes, I quite agree.

I don't think this is right; Apple has a pretty good so high-quality emulation is *not* a new development.

Almost certainly they expected to do emulation if they ever 'pulled the trigger' on the transition; if it works better than it did in the mid nineties, that's great- but clearly not required.

I say "this is not so risky" and it's "absurd fear mongering"?

Sure there was. If the major developers had decided they'd had enough and bailed, that'd be all she wrote.

This would be more likely if the Mac were more obviously struggling for survival, of course.

But the markshare numbers *are* low, and the transition was sprung on develoeprs by surprise, and they cannot have been too pleased at all this.

Indeed, some *are* bailing. If Metrowerks was not bailing, this transition would have been a lot easier!

So far it looks to me like enough are staying that the Mac will make it.